Parole board is asked to vote for clemency

COLUMBUS (AP) -- Attorneys for a condemned inmate who maintains he didn't kill a postal worker asked the Ohio Parole Board on Monday to reconsider its recommendation against clemency, based on a new lie detector test from a house painter who implicated another man.
John Spirko is scheduled to be executed by injection on Nov. 15 for the 1982 killing of Betty Jane Mottinger, 48, the postmistress in Elgin in northwest Ohio.
She was abducted and repeatedly stabbed, then wrapped in a tarp and dumped in a field. Her body was found three weeks later.