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    At 87, he hopes to eventually see execution of wife's killer

    BY ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS
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    NEW CONCORD, OHIO - At age 87, Norman Stout may not have a lot of time left to witness the execution of the man who killed his wife more than three decades ago. He's determined to be there if possible.

    "I want to make damn sure that it finally is accomplished," Stout said.

    The state of Ohio wants the execution to happen, as well, and says it finally has the means to put condemned killer John Stumpf to death after years of trying to obtain lethal drugs.

    Whether that three-drug combination is constitutional is before a federal appeals court whose ruling will help decide whether Stumpf's execution — now scheduled for November of next year — can take place at last.

    Stumpf was sentenced to die in 1984 for the slaying of Mary Jane Stout, shot four times at the couple's home outside of New Concord in eastern Ohio, about 70 miles (110 kilometers) east of Columbus.

    Of the more than two dozen Ohio inmates with active execution dates, Stumpf has been on death row the longest — more than 12,000 days. Six presidents have served. More than 30 new countries have come into existence. The population of the U.S. has grown by a third.

    Stumpf's situation is not unique. Six Alabama inmates have been on death row more than 30 years, including one inmate who arrived there in 1979. Texas houses more than a dozen inmates whose capital crimes occurred more than three decades ago. Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson cited long delays faced by victims' families when he pushed for eight executions in 11 days in April. Ultimately, four men were put to death.

    As has been the case elsewhere, court appeals and Ohio's struggle to find lethal drugs have helped delay Stumpf's execution. That includes a reprieve from Gov. John Kasich in May when he moved Stumpf's execution from January of next year to November to allow more time for legal arguments over Ohio's new lethal injection process.

    The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati heard arguments Wednesday for and against that process and is expected to rule soon. Ohio's first execution in more than three years is set for late next month.

    Seemingly endless appeals and roller-coaster rulings are a hallmark of death sentences in the U.S., frustrating proponents who say capital punishment moves far too slowly to ensure justice. But, opponents argue, those same appeals protect suspects' constitutional rights and sometimes free the innocent.

    Complicating matters, drugmakers and distributors have put the drugs used for decades off limits, setting off a scramble to find alternatives and often delaying executions while they search and argue in the courts.

    At issue in Ohio is the effectiveness of the first drug in the state's three-drug method, a sedative called midazolam that has been used in problematic executions in Arizona, Arkansas and Ohio in which inmates didn't appear fully sedated before the second and third drugs took effect.

    "More politics," said Norman Stout, recalling his reaction when he heard of the latest delay.

    Stout is waiting for a conclusion to the events of May 14, 1984, which he recalls as if they happened yesterday. He and his wife, Mary Jane, had just finished dinner when two men came to the door asking if they could use the phone. Once inside, they announced a robbery. As Stumpf held the couple at gunpoint, Clyde Wesley ransacked the house, according to court records.

    When Norman Stout made a move toward Stumpf, the gunman shot him twice in the head. Five fragments of lead remain beneath his skin.

    After Stout regained consciousness, he heard two male voices in the next room, then the four shots that killed his wife. Stumpf, sentenced to death by a three-judge panel, has always maintained Wesley shot Mary Jane Stout.

    Wesley is serving 35 years to life. The driver of the car that day, Norman Edmonds, served about 10 years before being paroled to his home state of Texas.

    At Wesley's trial, prosecutors argued Wesley shot Mary Jane Stout, while Wesley testified it was Stumpf. Wesley received a life sentence with parole eligibility; his next hearing is in 2027.

    Over the years, courts upheld and later rejected Stumpf's argument that it was improper for prosecutors to argue that Stumpf shot Mary Jane Stout yet contend at a separate trial that Wesley was the triggerman.

    Stumpf, now 56, has no current appeals pending, said David Stebbins, his public defender, who declined to comment further.

    Norman Stout met his wife while stationed at the now-closed Sampson Air Force Base in western New York state. After a teaching stint in Rochester, the couple moved to Ohio, where Norman Stout was a heavy equipment operator until the shooting.

    Mary Jane Stout was an avid collector of Holly Hobbie memorabilia. Norman Stout expanded her collection in her honor and now maintains a gallery in New Concord full of hundreds of Holly Hobbie figurines, plates, greeting cards, puzzles and board games.

    Showing a visitor around, Norman Stout speaks evenhandedly of his shooting and his wife's death. But it's clear he has little sympathy for arguments about the risk of execution to Stumpf.

    "I can't imagine the pain that my wife went through when she was shot," he said. "I want him to feel some pain."

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    Stumpf's execution date has been changed to April 16, 2020.

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

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    DeWine delays three more executions

    Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday delayed three more executions after delaying all of them in 2019.

    DeWine pushed back the scheduled execution of Gregory Lott to May 27, 2021, that of John David Stumpf to May 15, 2021, and Warren Keith Henness’s to Jan. 12, 2022.

    “Governor DeWine is issuing these reprieves due to ongoing problems involving the willingness of pharmaceutical suppliers to provide drugs to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, pursuant to DRC protocol, without endangering other Ohioans,” DeWine’s office said in a statement.

    The last execution in Ohio was that of Robert Van Hook in July 2018. Henness was slated to die in February 2019, but DeWine delayed it after a federal magistrate judge sitting in Dayton likened Ohio’s execution method to torture.

    The 6th U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati later ruled that the Ohio method is constitutional. But DeWine delayed subsequent executions, saying that drug makers were threatening to cut off the state’s access to their products for any use. The Dispatch had reported that state officials were using subterfuge to get the drugs from companies that were adamantly opposed to their use in Ohio’s death chamber.

    The governor also appears to have doubts about the efficacy of the death penalty.

    “What keeps us safer is locking up repeat violent offenders and throwing away the key,” he told Gongwer News Service in December.

    Hannah Kubbins of Ohioans to Stop Executions praised DeWine for Friday’s delays. Ohio is having problems carrying out executions at a time when public opinion is shifting against it and fewer are occurring nationally. Kubbins said it’s time for Ohio officials to consider repealing the death penalty.

    “It’s just becoming clear that we should be focused on getting rid of it as a whole,” she said.

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    Rescheduled execution date for 9/15/21.

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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.

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    Execution rescheduled to August 18, 2027 by DeWine.

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