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    Father attacks daughter's killer during sentencing hearing

    A major eruption in a Cuyahoga County courtroom Thursday afternoon. After a judge sentence serial killer Michael Madison to die, family members were allowed to address the court and killer.

    The father of victim Shirellda Terry said, "I know I'm supposed to forgive you." He suddenly turned and jumped over the defense table and tried to grab Madison. Chaos erupted in the courtroom and many people were in tears.

    The courtroom is in a short recess.

    Madison was convicted last month of killing three women and wrapping their bodies in garbage bags.

    The Cuyahoga County judge agreed with a jury who thought he should die by lethal injection.

    Madison's attorneys argued that he shouldn't get a death sentence because of psychological damage caused by child abuse.

    He was found guilty of killing 38-year-old Angela Deskins, 28-year-old Shetisha Sheeley and 18-year-old Shirellda Terry. Their bodies were found in July 2013 near the East Cleveland apartment building where Madison lived.

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    A court officer tackles Van Terry, father of one of three victims of Ohio serial killer Michael Madison, left. Terry was giving testimony about the loss of his daughter when he turned, paused and lunged toward Madison, who was grinning.


    Serial killer Michael Madison's death sentence an antidote for victims' families

    By John Harper
    cleveland.com

    CLEVELAND, Ohio — East Cleveland serial killer Michael Madison smirked as the father of his final victim took the podium in a Cleveland courtroom to read a statement about his daughter's life and her gruesome death.

    Judge Nancy R. McDonnell sentenced the convicted killer of three to death Thursday for the rape and murders of 18-year-old Shirellda Terry, 28-year-old Shetisha Sheeley and 38-year-old Angela Deskins.

    Thursday's hearing was their first chance for friends and family members who sat through the two-month trial to address the man convicted of killing those women.

    "You've touched our family, you've taken my child," Shirellda Terry's father Van Terry said.

    He then turned toward Madison, just as the killer sprouted a grin.

    Van Terry bolted from the podium and lunged across the hardwood table where Madison was seated. He grabbed at Madison's face as his momentum carried him back into the packed courtroom gallery.

    "He was upset. He's telling you that he lost his baby, that's a slice of his heaven, and (Madison) is sitting over there smiling," Van Terry's sister Sonya Richardson said after the hearing. "It's like, enough."

    A spokesman for the Cuyahoga County prosecutor said the office will review the incident and decide whether to charge Van Terry with a crime.

    Madison's sentence was a moment of closure for the families and friends of his victims who watched and listened to the vivid details of Madison's mutilation of the three young women whose bodies were found decomposing in trash bags around his apartment complex.

    For nearly two months they watched as photos of the womens' mangled and mutilated bodies flashed onscreen before a jury of 12. They listened as police detectives and forensics experts described how they were choked, beaten and in at least one case raped.

    The judge considered some mitigating factors that Madison's defense attorneys, led by David Grant, raised at trial. Madison was abused throughout most of his childhood, he came from a home where "no one here would allow their child to spend a single night," Grant said.

    Experts in corrections testified that Madison could be safely held in the state's prison system for the rest of his life. It was the only other sentence that McDonnell could have granted.

    The judge was not persuaded.

    Following the recommendation of the jury, that found him guilty and decided he should be put to death, McDonnell imposed state's most severe sentence.

    "In coming to my decision today, I am struck by the sheer inhumanity of what one human being can do to not one, but three human beings. It is incomprehensible," McDonnell said, turning to face Madison. "People who commit the kind of crimes that you have committed must be punished, and must be punished as severely as the law allows. It is absolutely necessary."

    It was the first time McDonnell, who has been on the bench in Cuyahoga County since 1995, has sentenced someone to death.

    Executions are on hold right now as the Ohio Department of Corrections struggles to find the drugs they need to carry out lethal injection.

    The use of the death penalty has become a lightning rod of criticism and a diplomatic sticking point for the United States and many of its closest economic allies. Facing threats of sanctions from European countries, drug makers have refused to sell and even refused to manufacture the drugs used in lethal injections.

    But the family and friends of Madison's three victims expressed relief in McDonnell decision to send Madison to death row.

    Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty campaigned three years ago on a promise to reduce the number of cases in which the death penalty is brought against defendants. In Madison's case, McGinty said death was the only fitting punishment.

    "This man is evil, he is a personification of it," McGinty said. "The sentence will not bring back the victims, but in the future, when other cold-blooded criminals do their cost benefit analysis, they will know that death is in the equation for them.

    "I believe there is some value in capital punishment, this is one of those cases."

    Outside the courtroom following the trial, Marie Padgette, mother of Angela Deskins, expressed outright gratitude at McGinty's side.

    Belinda Minor, Shirellda Terry's mother, forgave Madison from the courtroom podium, but did not express any reservation about his death sentence.

    "If you get injection, you take the easy way out," Shetisha's Sheeley's sister Samara wrote in a letter to the court. "It's a lose-lose situation here, and it makes me think selfishly. Thinking that your family will get to see you behind bars, makes me want to see you die."

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    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    Suspect stabbed children in Cleveland home while they were sleeping after stabbing woman to death, police say

    By Kaylee Remington
    cleveland.com

    CLEVELAND, Ohio -- An 18-year-old man in custody after being accused of stabbing a woman to death and stabbing three children in the home while they were sleeping, police say.

    The man, who has not yet been charged, was taken to University Hospitals and later taken to MetroHeath where he was treated for injuries to his fingers and palms. He was placed into police custody after he was treated, Cleveland police Det. David Gallagher said.

    Diane Madison, 67, was stabbed to death in the incident that happened about 12:15 a.m. Saturday at a home on Chickasaw Avenue near East 197th Street, police said. Sources confirmed to cleveland.com that she is the mother of serial killer Michael Madison.

    Police got a call about three people who were stabbed.

    When they arrived at the home where it happened, the 18-year-old suspect was still at the house, police said.

    Officers found Madison with several stab wounds and was pronounced dead on scene by paramedics, police said.

    Officers later found three children with several stab wounds.

    They were taken to University Hospitals’ Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital where they are still getting treatment.

    Police say the suspect went into the children’s room while they were sleeping and stabbed them. Two of the children got out of the house, while the other one hid inside the home, police say.

    Police later found him in a shower in the home.

    Police have not said what the motive was for stabbing Madison and the children.

    Michael Madison was sentenced to death in June 2016 after being found guilty the month before of killing 18-year-old Shirrellda Terry, 28-year-old Shetisha Sheeley and 38-year-old Angela Deskins between October 2012 and July 2013.

    https://www.cleveland.com/crime/2019...olice-say.html
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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    I wonder what happens if they sentence Jaylen Plummer, the killer of Michael Madison's mom, to death and send him to death row. I mean I know DR inmates aren't allowed to contact each other (does Ohio allow it?) but still, that sounds weird. (Jaylen Plummer also stabbed Michael Madison's children but they survived.)

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    State of Ohio v Michael Madison

    In today's Ohio Supreme Court opinions, the Court affirmed the conviction and death sentences of an East Cleveland man who killed three women over the course of nine months and disposed of their bodies in garbage bags near his apartment.

    Furthermore, it appearing to the court that the date fixed for the execution of judgment and sentence of the Court of Common Pleas has passed, it is ordered by the court that the sentence be carried into execution by the Warden of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility or, in his absence, by the Deputy Warden on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, in accordance with the statutes so provided.
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    Death penalty affirmed for East Cleveland man who killed 3 women

    The Ohio Supreme Court has affirmed the conviction and death sentences of an East Cleveland man who killed three women over the course of nine months and disposed of their bodies in garbage bags near his apartment.

    The Supreme Court unanimously ruled the death penalty was appropriate for Michael Madison, who confessed to choking a woman to death in October 2012, then leaving her in his apartment while he went out drinking. Madison claimed he did not recall killing the two others but did say he recalled waking up next to the dead body of one of the women, which he later put in a garage behind his home.

    Madison’s defense attorney did not claim Madison was innocent, but raised 20 issues on appeal, claiming improper trial procedures denied him the right to receive a life sentence in prison.

    Writing for the Court, Justice R. Patrick DeWine concluded that Madison’s claims of missteps and bias were not supported by the evidence. However, the Court reversed two kidnapping convictions that were part of his 14-count indictment and two death penalty specifications based on those kidnappings.

    The Court concluded the death sentences were justified for the three murders Madison committed in a course of conduct over nine months and for kidnapping and raping one of the victims. The Court ruled the “evidence overwhelmingly supports the course of conduct specifications” attached to each of three aggravated murder convictions.

    Madison lived in a second-floor apartment above a cable-television company office. In July 2013, cable company employees noticed a foul odor coming from a garage behind the building and called the police. The garage was used by Madison and several others. Police discovered a large garbage bag jammed between Madison’s car and the wall.

    Inside the bag was the decomposing body of Shirellda Terry, 18, who had met Madison about a week before she was last seen alive. Searching further, the police found another trash bag in a brush pile behind the garage. In it they discovered the body of Shetisha Sheeley, 28, who had last communicated with her family in September 2012.

    A third garbage bag was found in the basement of an abandoned house about 15 yards from the garage, which contained the body of Angela Deskins, 38, who lost contact with her family in May 2013. The body of each victim had been bent at the waist, and the head had been bound to the legs.

    Autopsies revealed Terry and Deskins had been strangled. Sheeley had a deep bruise on her face, inflicted while she was alive, but her body was too badly decomposed for the medical examiner to determine a precise cause of death.

    In mid-July 2013, detectives interrogated Madison over the course of several days, and he signed a four-page confession. He said he choked a woman, later identified as Sheeley, and after returning to his apartment from drinking, “folded her up,” put her in multiple trash bags and moved her to the garage. He left her body there for months before putting it outside the garage.

    Madison admitted to inviting Terry to his apartment. His text messages to Terry show that he lied to her by telling her he was 25 years old with no kids when he was actually 35 with two kids. He said he did not remember killing her, but did put her dead body in the garage. He said he did not recall anything about Deskins’s death. However, Deskins’s DNA was found in his apartment.

    A grand jury indicted Madison on 14 counts, including two counts of aggravated murder for each victim. Each aggravated murder included a death penalty specification alleging the murder was part of a course of conduct involving the purposeful killing or attempt to kill two or more victims. The charges also included a death penalty specification for felony murder of each victim based on kidnapping, and a death penalty specification for felony murder based on raping Terry.

    A jury found him guilty of all but one charge and recommended the death sentence. The trial judge imposed death sentences for each murder and prison sentences for the noncapital offenses.

    In his automatic appeal of his death sentence to the Supreme Court, Madison raised 20 issues, known as propositions of law. Many focused on jury selection and his belief that the trial court violated standards set by the U.S Supreme Court in its 1992 Morgan v. Illinois decision.

    He argued that at least nine potential jurors were ineligible to serve because they were “automatic-death-penalty jurors” who would vote to impose the death penalty even if mitigating factors justified a life sentence.

    Madison maintained he was forced to use six of his peremptory challenges to keep those prospective jurors off the jury, but three others remained. He argued that under Morgan if even one “automatic death penalty” juror remained on the jury, the trial was unfair and he was entitled to another trial.

    The Court’s opinion recounted the process for the selection and dismissal of each of the nine jurors and found no error in their selection or exclusion. The opinion stated that Madison argued he has a right to ask prospective jurors how they would vote given the “specific facts of an individual case.”

    “The purpose of the voir dire is not to establish how a juror will vote on the case to be tried; it is to discover whether any juror has a bias that would prevent him or her from individually weighing the facts of the case,” the Court stated.

    The Court noted “substantial evidence” was provided to demonstrate that each of the three jurors Madison claimed were biased all said they could impose a life sentence if the evidence warranted it.

    Madison also complained that the trial court was wrong when it allowed three prospective jurors to be dismissed because they expressed that they did not believe in the death penalty. Citing the Ohio Supreme Court’s 1997 State v. Keith decision, he maintained a prospective juror cannot be excluded simply for expressing reservations about the death penalty.

    A prospective juror can be excluded if a juror’s beliefs about capital punishment “would prevent or substantially impair the performance of his duties as a juror in accordance with his instructions and oath,” the opinion stated. Because each of the three expressed opposition to the death penalty even if the evidence warranted it, the trial court properly dismissed the prospective jurors, the Court concluded.

    Among the aggravating circumstances found by the jury was that Madison had committed the murders during the course of kidnapping each of the three victims. The Court found there was insufficient evidence to support a conclusion that Madison had kidnapped Sheeley and Deskins. The Court found that prosecutors only demonstrated that Sheeley voluntarily went to Madison’s apartment, but they had no evidence she was held there against her will. The prosecution was also unable to demonstrate whether Madison had kidnapped Deskins before killing her.

    After removing these two kidnapping aggravating circumstances from its consideration, the Court conducted an independent review to determine if the evidence supported a death sentence. The Court then determined that the death penalty was warranted because the aggravating circumstances outweighed the mitigating factors beyond a reasonable doubt and the death sentence was proportionate to sentences imposed in similar cases.

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    Distributed for conference April 30, 2021.

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    Petition for certiorari denied.

    Lower Ct: Supreme Court of Ohio
    Case Numbers: (2016-1006)
    Decision Date: July 21, 2020
    Rehearing Denied: September 29, 2020

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....c/20-1171.html
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