State rejects temporary reprieve for Ohio child killer
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}FILE – This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows death row inmate Ronald Phillips, convicted of the 1993 rape and murder of his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter in Akron, Ohio. Ohio Parole Board members are scheduled to hold a Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, hearing to consider arguments for and against mercy for Ronald Phillips, the first inmate scheduled for execution under the state's revised lethal injection method that uses a three-drug combination. His execution is scheduled Jan. 12, 2017. (Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction via AP, File) (The Associated Press)
Ohio prosecutors have rejected a proposal to temporarily delay the January execution of a man set to die for the 1993 rape and killing of his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter.
Assistant Ohio Attorney General Thomas Madden ruled out the possibility of a one-month reprieve for death row inmate Ronald Phillips in a Friday email made public Monday.
Phillips is the first inmate scheduled for execution under a new process for putting condemned prisoners to death.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}He is scheduled to die Jan. 12. An initial proposal would have postponed the execution until Feb. 15.
Madden said the proposal was rejected after Phillips' attorneys proposed a delay until April.
The attorney general's office declined to comment. Messages were left for Phillips' attorneys.