Frederick Treesh - Ohio Execution - March 6, 2013

[Guest]

Summary of Offense:

On August 27, 1994, Treesh murdered 58-year-old Henry Dupree, and attempted to murder 42-year-old Louis Lauver at an adult bookstore in Cleveland. Mr. Dupree was the security guard, and Mr. Lauver was a sales clerk in the bookstore. Treesh and an accomplice, Benjamin Brooks, robbed the bookstore in order to buy crack cocaine. During the robbery, Treesh fatally shot Mr. Dupree twice in the chest at close-range and shot Mr. Lauver in the jaw and forearm, leaving him seriously wounded.

[Guest]

The Sixth Circuit denied a COA for Treesh in their July 3, 2010 orders/opinions.

Opinion is here:

http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions...0a0200p-06.pdf

[Heidi]

In today's United States Supreme Court orders, Treesh's petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis DENIED.

[Heidi]

Prosecutors filed a request recently for the Ohio Supreme Court to set an execution date for Treesh.

http://news-herald.com/articles/2011...txt?viewmode=3

[Heidi]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court has set two execution dates for 2013, the furthest into the future the court has ever scheduled death penalty procedures.

The announcement Thursday brings to 10 the number of executions scheduled from September through May 2013.

But uncertainty hangs over those dates because of a shortage of the drug Ohio uses to put inmates to death and because of questions about how well the state follows its execution procedures.

The court set a March 6, 2013 date for Frederick Treesh, sentenced to die for killing a security guard at an adult bookstore in Cleveland in 1994.

The court also set a May 1, 2013 date for Steven Smith, sentenced to death for raping and killing his girlfriend's 6-month-old daughter in 1998.

http://www.chron.com/news/article/Oh...13-2140728.php

[Jan240]

On December 19, 2012, Treesh filed an appeal in the Sixth Circuit.

http://dockets.justia.com/docket/cir...s/ca6/12-4539/

[Heidi]

Treesh's clemency hearing is scheduled for January 31, 2013.

[Heidi]

Lawyers for a condemned man who fatally shot an adult bookstore security guard at the end of a multistate crime spree asked Ohio's parole board Thursday to recommend mercy, saying he accepts responsibility for what happened but that it was an unintentional consequence of a struggle for a gun while he was high.

The request by 48-year-old Frederick Treesh comes a little more than a month ahead of his scheduled March 6 execution.

Prosecutors say Treesh robbed banks and businesses, committed sexual assaults, stole cars, committed carjackings and shot someone to death in a robbery in crimes across Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. He was sentenced to die in Ohio for killing 58-year-old Henry Dupree during a robbery in Eastlake on Aug. 27, 1994.

Attorneys for Treesh argued in favor of clemency in Columbus, while prosecutors' presented their case against sparing Treesh for a murder they say was intentional. The parole board will make a recommendation, but Gov. John Kasich has the final say on clemency.

Treesh's attorneys described him as a cocaine addict who was high during the robbery and is deeply sorry for what happened.

"Hindsight, regret and remorse cannot turn back the clock and cannot return Mr. Dupree's life," they said in a petition for clemency. "What Fred can do and has tried to do is to help prevent others from making the same mistakes he did" by teaching them to avoid drugs.

His lawyers argue evidence showed the shooting was unintentional and allege that Treesh's rights were violated during a prolonged interrogation as he was coming down from a drug high, which contributed to his death sentence. They also say Treesh suffers from health problems, including a seizure disorder, that raise doubts about whether Ohio's lethal injection process would cause him suffering amounting to cruel and unusual punishment that's unconstitutional.

Prosecutors contend Treesh intentionally murdered Dupree and tried to kill others, including police officers in pursuit, after joining his co-defendants in a three-week spree of increasingly violent crimes, including a murder at a Michigan video store two days before the Ohio slaying.

"Treesh has never taken responsibility for his actions," Lake County prosecutor Charles Coulson wrote in his argument against clemency. "Treesh still claims `the cocaine made him do it.'"

Coulson also noted that courts previously determined Treesh's constitutional rights weren't violated.

Treesh declined to be interviewed by the parole board.

Ohio's most recent execution was in November, when the state put to death Brett Hartman for the 1997 stabbing and dismemberment of an Akron woman.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013...-penalty-ohio/

[iMxth3xbossx5000]

The Ohio Parole Board is filled with complete tools. On top of that, Kasich is a complete coward when it comes to carrying out sentences. How many death sentences has he commuted now?

[johncocacola]

The Ohio Parole Board is filled with complete tools. On top of that, Kasich is a complete coward when it comes to carrying out sentences. How many death sentences has he commuted now?

Four and three of them were with the recommendation of the parole board and regarding the one that wasn't I think he made the right choice. Better than Strickland who went against recommendations three times!! I wish the Ohio governor couldn't overrule unfavorable reccomendations in clemency cases like in Texas.