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    well.....ensure you carry this execution out, and then meat can be restored on the prison menu......

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    As much as I hate to say it, maybe Ohio should just give in on this one. I'd rather Awkal eat his halal meals to his heart's content and still get executed in June rather than have to deal with a huge lawsuit/cause célèbre that puts off his execution until Allah knows when.

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    Ohio Muslim inmates who had wanted food prepared to Islamic custom settle lawsuit with prison

    A Muslim death row inmate has settled a lawsuit that accused the Ohio prison system of denying him meals prepared according to Islamic law while providing kosher meals to Jewish prisoners.

    Ohio had previously decided to remove all pork products from prison menus in response to the lawsuit, though inmates weren’t seeking a ban on pork.

    Details of the settlement announced Wednesday afternoon weren’t released. Neither the inmate’s lawyer or the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction would comment.

    The state argued as recently as last month that providing the meals, known as halal, could bankrupt the state’s food service system because thousands of inmates have declared themselves Muslim.

    Attorneys for Abdul Awkal (ab-DUHL’ AW’-kuhl) and a second inmate argued that the state was exaggerating the cost.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...oAQ_story.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by Heidi View Post
    Details of the settlement announced Wednesday afternoon weren’t released. Neither the inmate’s lawyer or the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction would comment.

    The state argued as recently as last month that providing the meals, known as halal, could bankrupt the state’s food service system because thousands of inmates have declared themselves Muslim.
    Something tells me that Awkal now has plenty of commissary money.

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    Abdul Hamin Awkal Inmate Number: A267-328
    County: Cuyahoga
    Clemency Hearing: May 10, 2012
    Scheduled Execution: June 6, 2012
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    Death Row Inmate Pleads for Mercy

    COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A condemned Ohio inmate who killed his estranged wife and brother-in-law in a courtroom in 1992 is asking the state parole board for mercy.

    Abdul Awkal is scheduled to die June 6, one of 11 executions scheduled over the next two years.

    Awkal was sentenced to die for killing his estranged wife, Latife Awkal and brother-in-law Mahmoud Abdul-Aziz in a Cuyahoga County room where the Awkals were taking up divorce and custody issues.

    The Ohio Parole Board will hear arguments for and against clemency Thursday.

    They will then make a recommendation in about a week to Gov. John Kasich, who has the final say.

    Ohio resumed executions last month after a six-month delay due to court arguments over lethal injection procedures.

    http://www.abc6onyourside.com/shared...id_17387.shtml
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    Death Row Inmate Awaits Clemency Decision

    COLUMBUS (AP) -- A condemned Ohio inmate who killed his estranged wife and brother-in-law in a courtroom in 1992 is awaiting a decision on clemency today from the state parole board.

    Abdul Awkal is scheduled to die June 6 in one of 11 executions scheduled over the next two years.

    Awkal was sentenced to death for killing his estranged wife, Latife Awkal and brother-in-law Mahmoud Abdul-Aziz in a Cuyahoga County room where the Awkals were taking up divorce and custody issues.

    Awkal's lawyer says Awkal suffers from severe mental health problems and should be spared.

    The state says Awkal carefully planned the killings and should be executed.

    The board's decision goes to Governor John Kasich, who has the final say.

    http://www.abc6onyourside.com/shared...id_17511.shtml
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    AWKAL CLEMENCY REPORT

    Recommendation for clemency DENIED.
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    Parole board urges Kasich to reject clemency for Cleveland courthouse double murderer

    A Cuyahoga County man who gunned down his wife and brother-in-law in a Cleveland courthouse should be executed for the double murder, the state parole board recommended by a 8-to-1 vote Friday morning.

    The nearly unanimous recommendation that clemency not be granted by Gov. John Kasich comes in the case of 53-year-old Abdul Awkal, who is on death row for the 1992 murder of Latife Awkal and Mahmoud Abdul-Aziz, which occurred inside the courthouse on Lakeside Avenue.

    The sensational shootings occurred before a meeting in the family conciliation services office of the Domestic Relations Court over custody of the couple's then-15-month-old daughter. Latife Awkal had filed for divorce from her husband after he gave her a venereal disease.

    Awkal chased and shot both his wife and his brother-in-law in the head at close range with a semi-automatic pistol. He then tried to escape as he clutched his daughter and pointed the gun both at himself and at his daughter before a sheriff's deputy shot him in the back. He was arrested in the courthouse basement.

    At his trial, Abdul Awkal's counsel argued that he was not guility by reason of insanity but he was convicted by a jury on two counts of aggravated murder.

    In March 2009, Awkal's conviction in the murders was briefly overturned by a three-judge appellate court panel that found he received ineffective counsel in the case. At issue was a decision by Awkal's defense attorneys to call a psychiatrist who ended up testifying that he was sane at the time of the murders.

    However, the full U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decided 10-4 to uphold the murder conviction of the Lebanese immigrant who arrived in the United States in 1984.

    http://www.cleveland.com/open/index....sich_to_r.html
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    Condemned Ohio inmates' injection claim denied

    A federal judge has rejected claims by two condemned Ohio inmates challenging the constitutionality of the state's lethal injection process.

    The two are the next inmates scheduled to die in the state, with Abdul Awkal (ab-DUHL' AW'-kuhl) set for execution June 6 and John Eley (EE'-lee) set to die July 26.

    The two challenged Ohio's lethal injection process on the grounds it fails to guarantee the state won't execute someone who is insane, mentally disabled or was a juvenile when the crime was committed.

    U.S. District Court Judge Gregory Frost on Wednesday said Awkal and Eley have misunderstood Ohio's long-running injection lawsuit, which focuses on the process of administering the lethal drugs, and don't back up their claims.

    Attorney Allen Bohnert says he'll request that Frost reconsider the ruling.

    http://www.necn.com/05/23/12/Condemn...e8a00a698298ce
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