Prosecutors again ask for execution date for Charles Lorraine

COLUMBUS

Prosecutors have formally asked the Ohio Supreme Court to speed up its decision on a request to set an execution date for a man convicted of killing an elderly Warren couple 25 years ago.

Charles Lorraine was sentenced to death in 1986 for murdering Doris and Raymond Montgomery. Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins and Assistant Prosecutor LuWayne Annos asked the state’s high court last April to set an execution date in the case, noting that Lorraine had exhausted all of his state and federal appeals.

Late last week, they filed a follow-up motion to expedite, with hopes that justices will act soon on their earlier request.

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