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    Timothy Lee Hoffner - Ohio Execution - July 14, 2027




    Facts of the Crime:

    On September 22, 1993, Hoffner and his accomplice, Archie Dixon, murdered their roommate, 22-year-old Christopher Hammer in a park in Toledo. Hoffner and Dixon planned to kill Mr. Hammer to assume his identity and collect the anticipated insurance proceeds that Mr. Hammer would receive from an automobile accident. Hoffner and Dixon repeatedly beat Mr. Hammer, tied him up, took him into the woods and buried him alive. Hoffner and Dixon stole $11 in cash from Mr. Hammer's wallet, his driver's license, his Social Security card, his birth certificate and his car. Hoffner and Dixon confessed to police, and Hoffner showed police where they buried Mr. Hammer alive. Dixon also received a death sentence.

    For more on Dixon, see: http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...Ohio-Death-Row

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    On September 23, 2010, the US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals denied a Certificate of Appealability for Hoffner.

    Opinion is here:

    http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions...0a0311p-06.pdf

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    In today's United States Supreme Court orders, Hoffner's petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis was DENIED.

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    Lucas County prosecutor seeks dates for executions

    The Lucas County prosecutor's office asked the Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday to set execution dates for 2 former Toledo men convicted of burying a man alive in 1993 and leaving him to die.

    Archie J. Dixon, 41, and Timothy Hoffner, 42, are both on death row at Chillicothe Correctional Institution for aggravated murder. They were also convicted of kidnapping, aggravated robbery, and forgery.

    "Since his conviction and sentence, Hoffner and his attorneys have pursued all available avenues of appeal afforded under both Ohio and federal law," reads a motion filed with the high court on behalf of Prosecutor Julia Bates. "Every court that has examined Hoffner's claims has upheld his murder conviction and his death sentence."

    A similar motion was filed in Dixon's case.

    The U.S. Supreme Court last year reinstated Dixon's conviction and death sentence after the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned them on the grounds that his conviction had been tainted.

    The body of Christopher Hammer, 22, was found in a shallow Sylvania Township grave. Hoffner, Dixon's accomplice, had led police to the body. Hoffner and Dixon reportedly led Mr. Hammer to the wooded area, let him smoke a cigarette and say a prayer, and then buried him alive.

    Kristen Wilkerson, Dixon's girlfriend, was convicted of kidnapping but was released from prison after she cooperated with police.

    A federal judge has issued a moratorium against carrying out Ohio's death penalty as he explores changes the state has made in its process after problems experienced in an execution early this year. The moratorium is set to expire in February.

    Should the state Supreme Court grant the motions, the executions will likely not occur for 2 more years.

    The court already has set dates for executions through Sept. 21, 2016.

    (Source: The Toledo Blade)
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    Today the Ohio Supreme Court set May 29, 2019 as Hoffner's execution date.
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    Inmate on death row asks to halt execution

    COLUMBUS — The attorney for one of the men facing execution for a 1993 murder asked the Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday to halt his execution because of a ruling he said could affect all death-row inmates.

    Timothy J. Hoffner is to be put to death by lethal injection on May 29, 2019, for his role with Archie J. Dixon in burying Christopher Hammer, 22, alive in a wooded area in Sylvania Township.

    Hoffner’s federal public defender, Stephen A. Ferrell, cited a recent ruling in Marion County Common Pleas Court in which a judge threw out a death sentence in an unrelated case.

    The judge determined that Ohio’s 1981 sentencing law is unconstitutional. That judge cited a January ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that held that Florida’s sentencing system relegated juries to an advisory role in death sentencing while judges independently weighed the factors in favor of and against imposing death.

    That, the nation’s high court said, violated a defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to trial by jury.

    The motion for Mr. Hoffner claims Ohio’s law has the same problem, something that could affect all 138 people on the state’s death row.

    “It would be unconscionable if Ohio executed Hoffner and, subsequently, the trial court’s ruling [in the Marion case] proved to be correct,” Mr. Ferrell wrote. “No death prisoner’s epitaph should say he was executed after a statutory defect was recognized but before such defect was corrected. The risk of that unconscionable result alone warrants a stay in this case.”

    Mr. Ferrell compared the Marion case, which is under appeal, to the 1978 Ohio case that invalidated the state’s sentencing law and cleared death row.

    The Ohio Supreme Court already rejected an argument raising the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in another case, but the Marion judge determined the arguments in the two cases are not the same.

    Evy Jarrett, Lucas County assistant prosecutor, disagreed, saying the state Supreme Court’s ruling did address this issue.

    “Ohio’s scheme does not have the same constitutional infirmity ...,” she said. “The aggravating circumstances that make somebody eligible for the death penalty are still in the province of the jury.”

    Ohio’s latest moratorium on carrying out executions expires at the end of this year. The next scheduled execution is that of Ronald Phillips, of Summit County, on Jan. 12. The line for the death chamber at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville is now 27 inmates long extending into 2020.

    The state has struggled to find the drugs it would prefer to use, either the powerful sedative pentobarbital or the short-acting barbiturate thiopental sodium, because foreign manufacturers that own them have refused to make them available for executions.

    Efforts to offer legal incentives for compounding pharmacies to re-create the drugs or to import them have failed.

    Ohio’s last execution was in January, 2014, when a two-drug combination, since abandoned, was used. Witnesses described Dennis McGuire, of Montgomery County, as struggling against his restraints and making choking sounds in an unusually long execution. The state has since changed its lethal injection protocol to a yet unused single-drug method.

    Both Hoffner and Dixon have exhausted their usual state and federal appeals. Dixon is scheduled to die on March 20, 2019.

    http://www.toledoblade.com/Courts/20...execution.html
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    High court declines to postpone Hoffner execution

    The Ohio Supreme Court today declined to postpone the execution date for convicted murderer Timothy Hoffner.

    Hoffner, now 44, was convicted in Lucas County Common Pleas Court of aggravated murder, kidnapping, and aggravated robbery for taking Christopher Hammer, 22, to a wooded area in Sylvania Township and burying him alive in a shallow grave in 1993.

    His execution currently is scheduled for May 29, 2019, and his co-defendant, Archie Dixon, is to be executed March 20, 2019.

    Supreme Court Justices William O'Neill and Paul Pfeifer, the court's two critics of Ohio's death penalty, both cast dissenting votes on the motion to stay Hoffner's execution.

    http://www.toledoblade.com/Courts/20...execution.html
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    Hoffner's execution date has been changed to August 11, 2021.

    http://www.drc.ohio.gov/execution-schedule

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    Governor issues reprieve until 2024 for three Ohio death row inmates

    Three Ohio death row inmates will not be executed this year as planned.

    Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday issued a reprieve for Timothy J. Hoffner, John David Stumpf and Lawrence Alfred Landrum, saying he’s postponing the executions due to ongoing problems with getting the supply of drugs used for lethal injections.

    Hoffner was scheduled to be executed on Aug. 11, 2021, but it has been moved to June 18, 2024. He was convicted of murdering his roommate in Toledo in 1993.

    Stumpf, was convicted of murdering a woman in Guernsey County in 1984 and scheduled to be executed on Sept. 15, 2021. His new date of execution is Aug. 13, 2024.

    Landrum was sentenced to death for murdering a man in 1985. He was scheduled to be executed on Dec. 9, 2021, but that has been moved to Oct. 15, 2024.

    In December, DeWine said Ohio lawmakers would need to soon choose a method of capital punishment other than lethal injection before any executions can be carried out in the future.

    “Lethal injection appears to us to be impossible from a practical point of view today,” DeWine told the AP late last year, as execution drugs became increasingly difficult to obtain.

    Since taking office, DeWine has delayed every scheduled execution for a death row inmate.

    A bipartisan bill was introduced in 2020 to abolish capital punishment and replace it with life without parole, but SB 296 never got a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

    Ohio's last execution was in July 2018.

    https://www.ideastream.org/news/gove...th-row-inmates
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    Execution date rescheduled to July 14, 2027 by DeWine.

    https://governor.ohio.gov/media/news...reprieves-2-16
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