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    David Allen Sneed - Ohio




    Facts of the Crime:

    On November 19, 1984, Sneed and an accomplice, Chevette Brown, murdered 26-year-old Herbert Rowan in Canton. Mr. Rowan agreed to give Sneed and Brown a ride when they approached his car. Sneed pulled a gun and demanded money. When Mr. Rowan refused, Sneed shot him through the temple. Sneed also ordered Brown to shoot Mr. Rowan in the back of the head.

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    On March 31, 2010, Sneed was denied a Certificate of Appealabilty by the US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

    Opinion is here:

    http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions...0a0088p-06.pdf

    Sneed was denied certiorari by the US Supreme Court in today's orders.

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    Today the Ohio Supreme Court set August 1, 2018 as Sneed's execution date.
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    Sneed's execution date has been changed to December 9, 2020.

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

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    Canton man waiting 35 years for execution of dad’s killer

    ‘It would be like the end of a chapter going back to when I was a little kid,’ Matt Rowan says of execution of his father’s killer

    By Ed Balint
    Canton Rep

    CANTON Matt Rowan walked up to the gravesite of the father he never knew.

    Standing at his tombstone, the 41-year-old Canton man didn’t reflect on memories of his dad, Herbert M. Rowan III. The son doesn’t have any, and most photos of him were lost in a fire.

    The elder Rowan was murdered in 1984, when Matt was 6.

    All that’s left for Rowan are his mother’s stories about his dad. Most tangible is the grave marker he visits at Forest Hill Cemetery, inscribed with his father’s name, the identical dates of his birth and death and a notation for his service in the U.S. Navy.

    “It’s just hard not knowing who your dad was and what he looked like,” Rowan said.

    He lost that opportunity when David A. Sneed robbed and shot Herbert Rowan, then 26, in the fall of 1984 before ordering his accomplice to shoot Rowan in the head a second time. The weighted body was dumped over a bridge into Nimishillen Creek.

    Sneed was convicted in 1986 of aggravated murder and aggravated robbery in Rowan’s death.

    Roughly 35 years later, the son seeks what he hopes is a degree of closure: Sneed’s execution.

    “It would be like the end of a chapter going back to when I was a little kid,” he said while standing in the the cemetery on an overcast morning recently.

    But he says the planned execution has brought him only more frustration.

    Sneed, 57, had been scheduled to die a year ago before it was delayed. He’s now set for execution Dec. 9, 2020, according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

    The son expects another postponement.

    “Every time I get my hopes up ... it gets pushed to the back-burner again, and it’s going to keep getting pushed back.”

    Fred Scott, a Stark County assistant prosecutor, agrees.

    “The (execution) date is meaningless,” he said.

    “Everybody’s in a holding pattern until the legislature approves either a protocol for the drugs (used for lethal injection) or a new method,” said Scott, who heads the criminal division of the prosecutor’s office.

    Ohio’s last execution, of Robert Van Hook, occurred in July 2018. There are 24 inmates scheduled for execution through 2024, according to state records.

    Besides Sneed, four other Stark County defendants are on death row: John Gillard, Edward Lang III, Michael D. Scott and James Mammone. Only Sneed has an execution date, and a Stark County defendant hasn’t been executed for 65 years.

    Gillard was convicted in 1985, one year earlier than Sneed. Scott was convicted in 2000; Lang, 2007; and Mammone, 2010.

    Scott, citing the uncertainty of the death penalty in Ohio, said the Stark County Prosecutor’s Office hasn’t requested an execution date for Scott, even though he has gone through the state and federal appeals process.

    Death penalty in limbo

    Ohio’s inability to obtain drugs for lethal injection has delayed scheduled executions, Gov. Mike DeWine said last month.

    The Republican said state prison officials are finding it impossible to line up any company willing to supply drugs for a new lethal-injection method to replace a protocol essentially declared to be cruel and unusual punishment, The Columbus Dispatch reported.

    DeWine said the drugmakers have told the state that if they suspect any of their products would be used in executions, they would stop selling to the state altogether, potentially depriving Ohioans of important medicine, including people who get drugs through state veteran homes and local addiction-service providers, the newspaper reported.

    As a result, DeWine announced he again was delaying the execution of Warren Keith Henness, a Columbus man convicted in a 1992 slaying. Henness had been scheduled to die Sept. 12; his new date is May 14, 2020.

    DeWine said he would talk to General Assembly leaders about whether legislation allowing a different execution method should be pursued.

    ‘Out of our hands’

    Herbert Rowan’s son is an example of the loved ones left behind in death row cases. Others directly involved with Sneed’s case — attorneys, jurors, the judge — long ago moved on.

    But Rowan has a profound void in his life, and justice feels elusive, he said.

    Stark County Prosecutor John Ferrero empathizes with Sneed and others like him.

    “It’s discouraging because we have to have contact with the victims,” he said.

    The prosecutor acknowledged that sometimes his staff loses touch with the relatives of victims in death row cases because they move out of state or for other reasons. “We get calls asking, ‘What’s the status?’ or ‘What’s going on?’ and it’s really discouraging, but it’s out of our hands.

    “Many years go by, and a lot of people forget about the victims,” Ferrero said. “We have to keep that alive, and we have to see it through to the end.

    “It’s frustrating because the victim’s family wants finality,” he said. “And as long as (the execution day is) hanging out there, there’s no finality.”

    Rowan said most people familiar with the Sneed case don’t even know the victim had a son.

    Through his mother, Jill Shamp, of Canton, he has learned as much as he can about his father.

    But there’s a question only Sneed can answer for Rowan: “I just want to know why” he killed his father.

    Shamp said she and Herbert Rowan were divorced at the time of his death. Herbert was living in Chicago and had been visiting Canton when he was murdered on his birthday.

    The appeals and delays have caused the 58-year-old Shamp to question the fairness of the criminal justice system. “They have more rights than the victims,” she said of death row inmates.

    Pursuing capital cases

    Ferrero said his office pursues the death penalty when cases qualify under the law.

    After evidence is presented, it’s up to the grand jury whether to indict a case as death penalty eligible, he said.

    Legislators ultimately must decide whether to seek alternatives to lethal injection or to end capital punishment altogether in Ohio, Ferrero said.

    “It costs a lot of money,” the longtime prosecutor said. “A lot of taxpayer money is involved. The No. 1 reason you have it is as a deterrent to commit these crimes, and if you have constitutional issues that are going to be popping up time after time, maybe the state shouldn’t have it.

    “But it’s on the books in Ohio now, and we as prosecutors (in Stark County) will pursue it when cases qualify under the statute.”

    Scheduling executions

    Executions dates are set by the Ohio Supreme Court, said spokesman Edward Miller.

    Death penalty cases are appealed to the state’s high court. Following a review, the court issues an opinion, Miller explained.

    If the decision is to affirm the imposition of the death sentence, the court schedules an execution date. The appellant, however, may then file a motion to stay the execution date so that he or she can pursue other delays through both state and federal court proceedings, Miller wrote in a email.

    If the Ohio Supreme Court grants the motion for stay, then a new execution date will need to be set. The revised date generally is scheduled only after a county prosecutor’s office (in the jurisdiction of the capital case) files a motion requesting it.

    ‘Death is different’

    Former Stark County Common Pleas Judge Lee Sinclair is an expert on death penalty cases.

    He presided over capital cases as a trial judge and teaches classes on the subject to judges from across the country. He also has been a key contributor to a textbook about presiding over death penalty cases.

    Sinclair, 67, said he’s not surprised two Stark County death penalty convictions from the 1980s are still awaiting execution. He attributes the delays to the lengthy appeals process, legal challenges to the death penalty itself and Ohio’s inability to acquire drugs for use in lethal injection.

    “It goes back to the United States Constitution written (more than 200 years ago),” Sinclair said. “It prohibits ‘cruel and unusual’ punishment, but it doesn’t elaborate, so that’s open to interpretation.”

    The legal standards for death penalty cases are extraordinarily high, and the punishment is reserved for the worst criminal cases, Sinclair said.

    Capital punishment is also a polarizing issue, Sinclair observed. That’s reflected by the number of states not practicing it, he said.

    Waiting ... waiting ... waiting

    In the meantime, as legal arguments are made and executions are delayed, Matt Rowan is left waiting for what he considers justice.

    Rowan said he wants to attend Sneed’s execution at the state’s Death House and hear the last words of the man who took his father’s life more than three decades ago.

    “I just feel like it’s about time that due process is done,” he said. “The judge ordered it, so it should be done.”

    https://www.cantonrep.com/news/20190...of-dads-killer
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    Well this son will sadly never get justice with a hack like DeWine as governor.
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    Gov. DeWine issues reprieves of execution

    DAYTON, Ohio (WKEF/WRGT) - Three reprieves of execution were announced by Governor Mike DeWine on Friday afternoon.

    The three reprieves of execution are Kareem M. Jackson, who was scheduled to be executed on September 16, 2020. The new date of execution has been moved to September 15, 2022.

    Stanley L. Fitzpatrick, who was scheduled to be executed on October 14, 2020. The new date of execution has been moved to February 15, 2023.

    David Allen Sneed, who was scheduled to be executed on December 9, 2020. The new date of execution has been moved to April 19, 2023.

    DeWine announced that these repreives are being issued in part due to the ongoing problems involving the willingness of pharmaceutical suppliers to provide drugs to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) in accordance with normal DRC protocol, without endangering other Ohioans.

    https://dayton247now.com/news/local/...s-of-execution
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    David Allen Sneed was RESENTENCED to life in prison without parole on January 31st, 2022, by the Stark County Court of Common Pleas.

    https://documents.deathpenaltyinfo.o...2022-02-03.pdf

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