August 17
OHIO----new execution date
Oct. 13 execution date in place for Akron man
An Oct. 13 execution date has been set for an Akron man on Ohio's death
row.
The Ohio Supreme Court set the date last week for Adremy Dennis, 28.
A clemency hearing before the Ohio Parole Board is expected in September.
A spokesman for the Ohio attorney general's office said Dennis has
exhausted his procedural appeals.
However, Dennis and fellow death row inmate Richard Cooey, also of Summit
County, have a federal lawsuit pending against the state alleging its
lethal injection practice constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
A similar lawsuit was filed earlier this year by 2 other death row
inmates. The suit was dismissed on technical grounds and the inmates were
executed. Lawyers with the Ohio public defender's office say those
technicalities have been removed.
Dennis is currently housed on death row at the Mansfield Correctional
Institution.
He was convicted in December 1994 of the Highland Square area robbery and
shooting death of Kurt Kyle, 29, an avid stock car racer.
Dennis, 18, with an accomplice, Leroy Lavar Anderson, 17, told police they
were high and drunk and on a robbery spree the morning of June 5, 1994,
when they encountered Kyle and a friend standing in the driveway outside
Kyle's Bloomfield Avenue residence.
Dennis held a sawed-off shotgun to Kyle's head and demanded money from the
2 men. The friend surrendered $15, but Kyle had no cash. He was shot in
the head.
At trial, Dennis admitted to the shooting, but claimed the shotgun fired
accidentally.
Anderson is serving a life sentence at the Southern Ohio Correctional
Facility near Lucasville, the location of Ohio's death house. Anderson is
eligible for parole in 2022.
(source: Akron Beacon Journal)
