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    Court rejects inmate's challenge of death sentence for 5 slayings in 1993 Ohio prison riot

    CINCINNATI — A federal appeals court has rejected a challenge by an inmate convicted and sentenced to be executed for the slayings of five fellow inmates during a 1993 prison riot in Ohio.

    Death row inmate Keith LaMar was convicted of aggravated murder in 1995 in the deaths of five inmates during the riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Institution in Lucasville. A jury recommended the death penalty in four of the slayings.

    The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld a lower court's decision keeping the 46-year-old LaMar's convictions and death sentences in place.

    LaMar argues he was denied a fair trial when prosecutors were allowed to withhold evidence from the defense.

    A three-judge panel ruled the evidence would not have changed the outcome of LaMar's trial.

    http://www.startribune.com/court-rej...ngs/322198211/

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    On October 21, 2015, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit DENIED LaMar's petition for en banc rehearing.

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.a...es\15-8255.htm

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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court declined to review LaMar's petition for certiorari.

    Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
    Case Nos.: (11-3131, 11-3153)
    Decision Date: August 18, 2015
    Rehearing Denied: October 21, 2015

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/search.a...es/15-8255.htm

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    Inmate condemned in Ohio prison riot murders seeks review

    COLUMBUS, Ohio — A death row inmate convicted and sentenced in the slayings of five fellow inmates during a 1993 prison riot in Ohio is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review his case.

    The state has until Sept. 18 to respond to 48-year-old Keith LaMar’s request.

    LaMar was convicted of aggravated murder in 1995 for the deaths of five inmates during the riot at Lucasville’s Southern Ohio Correctional Institution. He received the death penalty for four of the five murders.

    The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s decision keeping LaMar’s convictions and death sentences in place.

    LaMar argues he was denied a fair trial when prosecutors were allowed to withhold evidence from the defence. A three-judge panel ruled that evidence wouldn’t have changed the outcome of LaMar’s trial.

    http://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn...cution-delayed

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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court declined to review LaMar's petition for certiorari.

    Lower Ct: Supreme Court of Ohio
    Case Numbers: (2004-0504)
    Decision Date: March 15, 2017

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....c/17-5626.html

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    From the Vault: Nine inmates, one guard killed in 1993 Lucasville prison riot

    By WCPO News Staff

    Twenty-five years ago, Ohio prison inmates killed nine of their own and one corrections officer during an 11-day riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio.

    About 450 prisoners took part in the riot that started on Easter Sunday, April 13, 1993. Lucasville was the state’s only maximum-security prison and housed the most dangerous offenders, many of whom had psychological disorders. The riot ringleaders were identified as members of various gangs, including Black Muslims and Aryan Brotherhood.

    On the first day, rioters took over Cellblock L and brutally beat and stabbed five inmates to death and tossed their bodies in the exercise yard. The victims were considered snitches. Four others were killed over the next few days. One was strangled with cords after paper and plastic were shoved in his mouth.

    Rioters also took eight prison guards hostage. When they didn’t think prison officials were taking their demands seriously, they strangled guard Robert Vallandingham on the fifth day.

    On the same day, a police helicopter crashed outside the prison. Three officers were injured.

    Ringleaders insisted on talking to TV and newspaper reporters to make their complaints and demands known. Chief among them: Abusive treatment and overcrowding. In addition, Black Muslims wanted mandatory tuberculosis testing stopped, saying it violated Islam, along with other concessions to their faith. Rioters also demanded the warden be fired and amnesty for all who participated.

    Two of the Muslim leaders were allowed in the recreation yard to negotiate with two prison officials. They sat across each other at a table with a microphone that broadcast their conversation live to TV and radio stations across the state.

    Gov. George Voinovich, whose father had designed the prison, called in the Ohio National Guard to support police and sheriff units from around the state. There was no place for them to sleep, so they took up with hogs, cows and sheep in the prison barns.

    Officials shut off electricity and water to Cellblock L when the riot began. A breakthrough occurred on the sixth day when food and water was sent in.

    Over time, two guards were released and most of the inmates in the cellblock walked out and surrendered. About 60 remained when the standoff entered its second week. When officials eventually agreed to review their demands, the rest of the rioters released the remaining guards and gave up on April 21, 1993.

    Once reporters were allowed inside, they found Cellblock L trashed and in ruin. Lt. Gov. Mike DeWine described it as “devastation.” Rioters caused more than $40 million damage, smashing sinks, toilets, water pipes and anything breakable, and setting fires to mattresses and whatever they could burn.

    Five inmates were sentenced to death for their roles in the riots but remain on death row. Out of 50 inmates who faced charges, 47 were convicted.

    https://www.wcpo.com/news/our-commun...le-prison-riot
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    Execution date sought for convicted Ohio prison riot killer

    The Associated Press

    COLUMBUS, OHIO - A prosecutor has asked the Ohio Supreme Court to set an execution date for an inmate sentenced to die in the slayings of five fellow inmates during a 1993 prison riot in Ohio.

    Forty-nine-year-old Keith LaMar was convicted of aggravated murder in 1995 for the deaths of five inmates during an uprising at the Southern Ohio Correctional Institution at Lucasville. He received the death penalty for four of the five killings.

    Mark Piepmeier is a Hamilton County prosecutor serving as special prosecutor for Scioto County, where the killings happened. He asked the court on Monday to set the date, saying LaMar had exhausted his appeals.

    A message was left with LaMar's attorneys, who are expected to oppose the request.

    https://www.theolympian.com/news/pol...218584815.html
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    In today's Motions and Procedural Rulings, the Ohio Supreme Court set LaMar's execution date for November 16, 2023.
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    A newspaper in France has written about Lamar's musical journey on Death Row.

    From US death-row cell, he turns to music for salvation

    AFP

    Music has helped Keith LaMar survive the mind-numbing sameness of nearly 30 years on death row in a maximum-security prison in the US state of Ohio.

    Now he hopes his love and involvement in jazz -- along with the intervention of musicians drawing public attention to his case -- will help him escape execution for a murderous crime he insists he did not commit.

    LaMar, who turns 53 on Tuesday, is accused of killing or ordering the killing of five fellow inmates during an 11-day prison riot in 1993.

    His execution is already scheduled -- for November 16, 2023.

    LaMar said he has spent the past 30 years preparing himself psychologically, morally and legally for whatever comes next.

    "So, if and when the time comes, and I am an unfortunate victim of the state ... it won't be because I didn't try to do everything in my power to prevent that," he told AFP by telephone.

    During those decades behind bars, though, he has become a huge jazz buff.

    "Music is a big part of my life," he said.

    He is particularly a fan of the music of John Coltrane, saying iconic albums like "A Love Supreme" have helped him cope with his anger and isolation.

    The very first thing he does when he wakes up in the morning in a cell "the size of a closet" is to put on a CD, he said -- that, and write.

    LaMar pleaded guilty for the crime he was originally arrested for at 19: the murder of a childhood friend -- an addict who had tried, at gunpoint, to steal drugs LaMar was selling.

    He says he tried to turn his life around during the early years of his original 18-year sentence, completing a high-school equivalency degree before enrolling in university classes from his cell.

    But he wants his case around the Lucasville Prison Riot to be reopened, contending that trial was gravely tainted by judicial irregularities.

    In that regard LaMar is no longer alone. In addition to a team of lawyers working to reopen his case, several jazz musicians -- including the Spaniard Albert Marques -- have come together to demand "Justice for Keith LaMar" and raise awareness of his case.

    Last weekend Marques's group gave a concert at New York's Jazz Gallery to celebrate release of the CD "Freedom First," composed jointly by LaMar and Marques. Some of the proceeds will cover LaMar's legal expenses.

    During the concert, the firm but seductive voice of LaMar himself could often be heard over the speaker system.

    Marques said LaMar, who wrote several of the song lyrics, narrating his life and commenting on his fate, "is part of the band and earns the same as the musicians."

    "The idea is not to play for Keith, it's to play with Keith," Marques told AFP.

    But how could LaMar participate from a death-row cell hundreds of miles away?

    "He can make calls from jail, for which he has to pay," Marques said, adding with a touch of sarcasm that the guards "can't prohibit something that they can't imagine happening."

    Marques said the band wants to "raise awareness" about a case involving one of his "best friends," whom he has visited in maximum-security Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown.

    LaMar says in his book "Condemned" -- written in his cell, then dictated by phone to a friend -- that he has been "trying, with all my might, to redeem myself." And he explains his version of what happened during the riots, which changed his life forever.

    According to LaMar, prosecutors wrongfully withheld interviews with 13 inmates who witnessed or took part in the riots; evidence was destroyed; and prosecutors failed to disclose information that might have proved his innocence.

    Prosecutors and appeals court judges, however, have insisted LaMar's guilt is proven.

    "When you (are) poor, Black and in a racist country, you plead guilty," he said, referring to limited recourse he believes African Americans have in the justice system.

    In a country which has seen stunning cases of wrongful conviction, "the truth can only set you free when you have enough money," LaMar said.

    But music can also deliver truth. Musician Marques has been "one of the blessings of my life," LaMar says, and his last, best hope of drawing wider attention to his case.

    Above all, he says, he has gained a "friend."

    "I'm trying to stay caught up with meaningful, purposeful things," LaMar said, because that gives some sense to his life -- and ensures those who believe in his innocence also "believe in me as a human being."

    https://www.rfi.fr/en/from-us-death-...-for-salvation
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    Execution date for Ohio inmate convicted in Lucasville prison riot rescheduled for 2027

    The Ohio Supreme Court has delayed the execution of an inmate sentenced to die in the slayings of fellow inmates during a 1993 prison riot for three years.

    Keith LaMar was convicted of aggravated murder in 1995 for the deaths of five inmates during a riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Institution in Lucasville. He received the death penalty for four of the killings.

    The high court on Thursday moved his execution date from Nov. 16, 2023, to Jan. 13, 2027.

    Lamar's lawyers have argued the only evidence against the 54-year-old prisoner came from inmates that authorities never corroborated, and that further proof of his innocence was withheld.

    His reprieve comes amid an unofficial death penalty moratorium in the state, which Republican Gov. Mike DeWine has attributed to the state's ongoing inability to obtain drugs from pharmaceutical companies.

    Ohio's execution schedule is now pushed out until late 2026.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/pittsbur...uled-for-2027/
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