| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1 | Karen Torley | Governor Strickland NEEDS to reconsider his decision to commute John's sentence to Life Without Parole and fully investigate this case. This is NOT JUSTICE for John or for the family of Betty Mottinger. |
| 2 | Sandie stafford | Please give Mr Spirko a new Trial |
| 3 | Anonymous | |
| 4 | Bill Farkas | We must continue to fight for the freedom of innocent men. If he is willing to put his life on the line to prove he didn't commit the crime and live with whatever happens in the re-trial, what does the prosecutor's office have to worry about if they are "correct in the first place"? Can the State of Ohio live with itself if it is wrong? Can that prosecutor? |
| 5 | Dorothy Yost | |
| 6 | Rhea Abbott | |
| 7 | Cheryl Emmanuel | I believe Mr Spirko deserves a new trial - even residual doubt is too much |
| 8 | Meghan Dudley | |
| 9 | Monica Westenbrink | |
| 10 | Anonymous | He aint the only person on ohio death row that should not be there.
ITS BETTER TO ADMITE WHEN YOUR IN THE WRONG BUT OF COURSE WE ALL NOW THAT IS NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN. |
| 11 | Patti Dobyns | A new trial is much needed in the John Spirko case. How can so little evidence IF any at all allow him to spend life in prison much less be on death row. |
| 12 | Sandrine Ageorges | |
| 13 | Tracy Millar | |
| 14 | Hilary Hughes | I support the request that John Spirko be given a new trial |
| 15 | Pamela Valentino | Where is the proof to keep this man in prison? I see none. Mr. Spirko deserves a new trial. |
| 16 | jeff and linda robertson | |
| 17 | David Moffatt | Of what use is a questionable reduction in sentence when doubt exists as to whether the person committed the crime for which he was sentenced in the first place? |
| 18 | Anonymous | |
| 19 | Caroline Abbott | |
| 20 | Anonymous | Give John Spirko the new trial he deserves. I am a ohio tax paying citizen and this can't be ignored |
| 21 | Mike Charlesworth | I wish you people would do the decent thing-live and let live. |
| 22 | M.Griffiths | The law says "beyond reasonable doubt " .The Governer says that doubt exists so it's either a re-trial or a release with an apology and recompense.
The Governer seems to have his tits in a wringer over this but it's not him thats locked up in prison is it ? |
| 23 | Anonymous | If there were the same "a shadow of a doubt" of evidence and you were trying to convict a man, you'd be all over that. DNA is scientific and very conclusive. IF, John Spirko were involved in any way in Betty Mottinger's abduction and murder, which he's not, his DNA would be part of the DNA evidence tested. You've been testing DNA evidence for years and try as you might, you still can't make him guilty. You've stolen 26 years of a man's life. Have you read the news? Other states are releasing men from Death Row daily based on lack of DNA evidence and you, Governor Strickland need to do the same. At the absolute least, you need to give the man a new trial. You say you're afraid to have John Spirko on the streets? I'm more afraid of you on the streets in in control of the State of Ohio perpetrating injustice daily. I demand that you do what's right for the State of Ohio. It's time for you to step up Governor Strickland. |
| 24 | Frank Torley | What you have done Governor Strickland to John Spirko is NOT JUSTICE.
INVESTIGATE THIS CASE PLEASE ASAP |
| 25 | Roz Ainsworth | Sounds like he is totally innocent to me----How can they keep him locked up ??????? |
| 26 | Debra Barton | How typical of Ohio, is this? They sneak in the news about his sentence being reduced, on the very day that the media are bound up with Kenny Richey's return to Scotland. What is this, guys? Hoping no-one notices or cares enough, in the light of Richey's release? Are we all supposed to be thankful that you have changed an INNOCENT man's sentence to a slow death, instead of a faster one? This decision was nothing to do with Spirko, but solely a political one - and a cowardly one, at that. If there was 'reasonable doubt' in a Court of Law the jury wouldn't convict, so this should be a retroactive release - ACQUITTAL. |
| 27 | Judith Oele | It's time to let this man go if no one can prove he's guilty!! |
| 28 | Mel Black | |
| 29 | Paul Ames | Commuting sentences scarcely begins to address the injustice in John Spirko's case - it just ensures there will be no more to the litany of execution dates he has survived.
This case needs nothing less than full review of a re-trial. |
| 30 | Norma J F Harrison | the horror is too great for words -
only tears - that we are on Earth with such murderers - the State and its perpetrators. |
| 31 | Berni Kindregan | Everyone is entitled to a fair ttial and I believe the death penalty should be abolished completely. It is barbaric !! |
| 32 | Judith Aldridge | |
| 33 | Paige Clark | Spirko needs a new trial; "residual doubt" demands it. |
| 34 | Kari | With DNA evidence in our pockets, I cannot imagine holding ANYONE for life without absolute proof that they committed this crime.
If ther eis NO DNA evidence binding this man, then there is certainly reasonable doubt, and then some. |
| 35 | holly riggenbach | |
| 36 | Amy Stephens | |
| 37 | Henderson Spirko | Give John Spirko the new trial he deserves. LWOP should never been an option in this case. No Physical evidence and he gets LWOP. Give him the trial he deserves and let the attorney's prove it the courts way.. |
| 38 | Cathrin Gbotolorun | I hope Mr. Spirko will have the chance of getting a new trial. |
| 39 | Anonymous | |
| 40 | sylvie Gibault | |
| 41 | Nathalie Gaillet | |
| 42 | sirven | please give a new trial for mr Spirko.
Thank you |
| 43 | sirven | please give a new trial for mr Spirko.
Thank you |
| 44 | sirven | thank you Mr governor to help Mr Spirko |
| 45 | sirven | thank you Mr governor to help Mr Spirko? with a new trial |
| 46 | alonso | |
| 47 | Nathalie Burket | |
| 48 | Godard | |
| 49 | Pascale Duc | |
| 50 | Anonymous | |