Thank You for Granting Clemency to John Eley

CLEMENCY GRANTED!

Please Thank Governor Kasich.

John Jeffrey Eley was scheduled to be executed July 26, 2012 for his role in the murder of Ahsan Aydah in 1986. In a 5 to 3 split decision issued on June 20, 2012, the Ohio Parole Board rejected clemency for Mr. Eley.

Prominent individuals connected to the case supported clemency for Mr. Eley because they no longer felt his case necessitated his execution. These individuals include:

Gary Van Brocklin, the prosecuting attorney who tried the case.
The Hon. Peter Economus, one of the three judges who sentenced Mr. Eley to death.
Retired detective Joseph Fajack, the lead investigator on the case who secured Mr. Eley’s confession.
Guy Trammel, a probation officer familiar with Mr. Eley who prepared the presentencing report.

On July 10, 2012, Governor John Kasich granted clemency and commuted Eley's sentence to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

Additional case information is here, in the Cleveland Plain Dealer's editiorial applauding this decision.

Please join the individuals above in thanking Ohio Governor Kasich for granting clemency to John Jeffrey Eley by signing this petition, which also calls on Governor Kasich to put a halt to future executions. Your signatures will be hand delivered to Governor Kasich at a strategic moment in the near future.

Dear Governor Kasich,

We thank you for sparing the life of John Eley by commuting his death sentence. The reasons for clemency were compelling: prominent individuals connected to the case voiced their support for clemency; there is evidence that Mr. Eley suffers from an intellectual disability; and had it not been for Melvin Green, this crime would have never been committed.

In agreeing with the minority recommendation of the Ohio Parole Board in this case, your decision to grant clemency to John Eley speaks to the thoughtful consideration you gave this case and your statesman-like leadership in doing what is right instead of what is easy. Thank you, Governor Kasich.

Many questions remain open regarding the fairness, accuracy and general appropriateness of death penalty practices in Ohio. The Ohio Supreme Court is currently engaged in a study of Ohio’s capital punishment system. Ohio Supreme Court Justice Paul Pfeifer, a primary author of Ohio’s death penalty statute when he was an Ohio legislator, has called for the repeal of the death penalty, and he is joined in that call by two former heads of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction – Terry Collins and Reginald Wilkinson, among many other Ohioans.

Again, thank you for making the right decision for Mr. Eley. It would also be a correct decision to impose a moratorium on future executions pending the outcome of the Ohio Supreme Court study and the implementation of its recommendations. We urge you to impose a moratorium on executions immediately.

Thank you.

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Number	Date	Name	Location	If you wish, please add a ...
4701	Sun Feb 10 00:43:55 EST 2013	Charles L. Krugman	Fresno, CA
4700	Fri Aug 17 11:46:38 EDT 2012	Lyz Glickman	OH
4699	Thu Aug 16 13:34:32 EDT 2012	Stanley Paul	Augusta, GA	Thank you Governor Kasich. Thank you. -Stanley Paul
4698	Wed Aug 15 21:58:15 EDT 2012	ann lawton	savannah, GA	Thank God and thank you
4697	Wed Aug 15 16:02:39 EDT 2012	Ketriana Yvonne	Brooklyn, NY
4696	Wed Aug 15 11:12:46 EDT 2012	Vincent Fontaine	Brussels, ot
4695	Fri Aug 10 13:00:39 EDT 2012	Lori Gilio	Whitestone, NY
4694	Fri Aug 10 05:35:03 EDT 2012	Arlena Morton	Petersburg, IN
4693	Mon Aug 06 10:39:35 EDT 2012	Rev.Dr. Roger Thomas	Ambridge, PA	Thank you Governor! Rev.Dr. Roger L. Thomas
4692	Sun Aug 05 08:28:55 EDT 2012	Phillip McLaurin	Columbia, SC
4691	Thu Aug 02 05:52:09 EDT 2012	Rachel Jackson	NM	Thank you so much for making the right decision, when it might have been easier to make the wrong one.
4690	Thu Aug 02 04:35:13 EDT 2012	Natalie Trott	Melbourne, NY
4689	Wed Aug 01 17:40:27 EDT 2012	Charles Bahn	Aurora, MO
4688	Wed Aug 01 17:25:58 EDT 2012	Robin Iles	GJ, CO
4687	Tue Jul 31 20:47:02 EDT 2012	Carol Ruth Dreiling	Asheville, NC	as a member of Murder Victims Families for Reconcilation I support your decision
4686	Tue Jul 31 14:15:23 EDT 2012	yves-marie Perot	Mauron, ot	Iwant say thank you for your decision of commute John Eley sentence to death.
4685	Tue Jul 31 08:05:02 EDT 2012	Susana García Díaz	Madrid, ot
4684	Sun Jul 29 22:40:06 EDT 2012	Scott Somerville	Hayward, WI
4683	Sun Jul 29 20:07:21 EDT 2012	Linda Cody	High Point, NC
4682	Sun Jul 29 19:59:54 EDT 2012	Natalie Trott	Melbourne, NY
4681	Sun Jul 29 17:06:56 EDT 2012	Leslie Zalles	TX
4680	Sun Jul 29 16:01:16 EDT 2012	Susan Palmieri	Oberlin, OH
4679	Sun Jul 29 12:05:02 EDT 2012	Victoria Saunders	bedford, ot
4678	Sat Jul 28 08:57:58 EDT 2012	Ellen Kitchens	Kettering, OH
4677	Fri Jul 27 21:00:56 EDT 2012	Frank and Kathleen Manning	Georgetown, TX, TX	Just wanted to add my voice to others in thanking you for the action you took to commute the sentence of Mr. Eley. It takes courage to act in the face of possible political retribution

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