Ohio killer asks Supreme Court justice to remove herself from case

Associated Press

COLUMBUS

A condemned killer who stabbed his victim more than 100 times, then cut off her hands, has asked the chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court to remove herself from the case because she was a prosecutor at the time he was tried.

Brett Hartman is scheduled to die Aug. 16 for the 1997 Akron killing of 46-year-old Winda Snipes.

Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor, who signed the Feb. 8 order scheduling Hartman’s execution, was the chief prosecutor in Summit Count when Hartman was on trial.