COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Gov. John Kasich has denied a request for mercy by a death-row inmate convicted in the killing and dismemberment of an Akron woman in 1997.
Thirty-eight-year-old Brett Hartman is set to die by injection at the state prison in Lucasville on Nov. 13 for the murder of 46-year-old Winda Snipes.
Snipes had been stabbed more than 100 times, her throat was slit and her hands had been cut off.
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