Prosecutor seeks execution date for Jason Getsy

WARREN — The Trumbull County Prosecutor’s Office has asked the Ohio Supreme Court to set an execution date for Jason Getsy, a 33-year-old Hubbard man who killed a Hubbard Township woman and wounded her son in a murder-for-hire in 1995.

Getsy’s execution was put on hold in 2007, when his lawyers joined a legal challenge to lethal injection, the state’s method of execution.

Other than that, Getsy has exhausted all state and federal appeals of his execution, said LuWayne Annos, an assistant Trumbull County prosecutor.

In a motion requesting the execution date, the Trumbull County Prosecutor’s Office says Getsy’s lethal injection argument is frivolous and likely to be rejected — given the fact that the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati rejected the argument when it was used by former Ohio inmate Richard Cooey as a reason to keep him alive.

Cooey was eventually executed by lethal injection late last year.

“There is no indication that the court will decide [Getsy’s] case contrary to the precedent of” Richard Cooey’s case, the prosecutor’s office said.

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