Prison-riot killer can request evidence


November 18, 2011 at 12:00a.m.

Associated Press

COLUMBUS

A federal judge is allowing an Ohio inmate sentenced to die for ordering a guard’s killing during 1993 prison riots to request evidence the inmate claims could exonerate him.

Death-row inmate Carlos Sanders was convicted of Robert Vallandingham’s slaying during the riots in Lucasville that also killed eight inmates.