TOLEDO -- For nearly 24 years, John Spirko has lived on Ohio's death row... until last week. Governor Ted Strickland commuted John Spirko's scheduled date with death slated for one week from today.
VAN WERT — The Ohio Supreme Court on Dec. 23 declined to hear an appeal in the case of John Spirko, charged in the 1982 murder of a Van Wert County postmistress. The high court’s ruling means that ...
Gov. Ted Strickland today commuted the death sentence of John G. Spirko Jr., halting his Jan. 24 execution. In changing Spirko’s sentence to life without the possibility of parole, Strickland said he ...
John Spirko will not be executed for the 1982 murder of Betty Jane Mottinger. But he'll never get out of prison, either. Citing the lack of physical evidence in the 1982 murder and what he described ...
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