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    Surely there should be federal regulations that deal with such prisoner transfers? It doesn't sound reasonable that one prisoner (such as Debra Brown) can avoid the death penalty they've been sentenced to by being in another state who won't extradite them, while another prisoner (such as Thomas J. Grasso) can receive the death penalty because the authorities in the state they've fled to have reach an agreement with the state they're on death row in? In Brown's case there's even less reason not to allow the extradition, it's not as if Ohio disagrees with the death penalty afterall.

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    Richard86, there's considerable latitude allowed extradition between states and the enforcement thereof. This is speculation on my part, but here goes. Brown was originally sentenced to death in Ohio, but her sentence was commuted to LWOP there, because of low IQ and mental health issues.

    Indiana does have a motion for extradition, but Ohio denied the motion. I suspect this was more a pro forma petition by Indiana, just to say they did it. But Indiana isn't going to push Ohio too hard for successful extradition because of the IQ and mental health issues. Indiana would go through some serious dollars litigating both issues. And Brown is serving LWOP in Ohio, so Indiana doesn't have to shell out for three hots and a cot for her for a couple of decades or more. Brown is about 52 now.

    I suspect it's a case of Indiana just letting sleeping dogs lie . . .

    Frankly, getting the feds involved in regulating such matters: that's a states'-rights issue that wouldn't sell in most of these United States, especially given the feds' arrogation of so many states' rights over the last few decades.

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    Indiana officials drop execution bid in 7-year-old's death

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    CROWN POINT, Ind. – Indiana prosecutors have quietly dropped efforts seeking the execution of an Ohio inmate for her role in killing a 7-year-old girl in 1984, citing the inmate's intellectual disability.

    The Lake County prosecutor and the Indiana attorney general's office signed an agreement last month withdrawing a demand for the execution of 56-year-old Debra Denise Brown, The (Northwest Indiana) Times reported.

    Brown and Alton Coleman received death sentences for killing Tamika Turks of Gary, Indiana, and for slayings in Ohio. For more than 50 days, the couple committed crimes across six states, leaving eight people dead. Coleman was executed in Ohio in 2002, while Brown's Ohio sentence was commuted to life in prison on grounds that she was mentally disabled.

    U.S. Supreme Court rulings prohibit Brown's execution because of her disability, said Melissa Gustafson, a spokeswoman for the Indiana attorney general.

    "The modification was based on evidence developed throughout this case that Brown is likely intellectually disabled, a condition formerly known as mental retardation," she said.

    Brown was ordered to serve 140 years in prison in addition to a sentence of life without parole. She's currently an inmate at the Dayton Correctional Institution in Ohio for two killings in that state.

    LaVerne Turks, Tamika Turks' mother, said she's angry and hurt she wasn't notified about the decision. She said attorney Thomas Vanes, who had won Brown's death sentence conviction in 1986, told the family about the agreement at Thanksgiving.

    "Debra Brown was right there with (Coleman), committing the same crimes. She bears the same responsibility for them, and she should share his punishment," LaVerne Turks said.

    Gustafson said the attorney general's office believed the families of the victims had been contacted by the Lake County prosecutor's office.

    "The (Office of Attorney General) deeply regrets that they were not notified in advance, because we take seriously the dignity of victims of all crime and our responsibility to ensure that dignity within the criminal justice system," she said.

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    Unjust that this child raping murderer escapes justice, I personally oppose the execution of all the rest of the death row inmates in Indiana on grounds of justice if the worst of them(Brown) is not subject to execution. She raped and murdered a 7 year old girl. This argument that she was mentally impaired could arguably made for the rest of the death row inmates in Indiana. I believe she was also the only child raping murderer on Indiana death row as well. Not cool Indiana!

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    Roy Ward is the other known child rapist still on their row.

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    Brown is worse, she had multiple victims and plus her victim was a child(7), his victim was a teenager(15).

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