TONIGHT! Keith LaMar was unjustly condemned to death by an all-white jury following the 1993 Lucasville Prison Uprising in southern Ohio. Tonight at 7 p.m. in Benes Room B, Students for Decarceration will screen the documentary film “Condemned,” which focuses on Keith and the injustices of his trial. We will then have a phone conversation with Keith.
The State of Ohio wants to set an execution date, and Keith’s attorneys have recently filed a response contesting this: “An execution date should not be scheduled because Mr. LaMar’s death sentence is precisely the sort identified as inappropriate by the Joint Task Force to Review the Administration of Ohio’s Death Penalty. Mr. LaMar’s conviction rests on prisoner testimony which is not independently corroborated; there is no physical or video evidence linking him to the crimes and he has always maintained his innocence. Evidence supporting Mr. LaMar’s innocence is slowly coming to light after dogged efforts to unearth such proof.”
Start Date/Time: October 22, 2018 at 7:00 PM.
End Date/Time: October 22, 2018 at 8:30 PM.
Location: Hamilton-Williams Campus Center, Room: Benes Room B.
OWU Sponsoring Organization/Office: Students for Decarceration.
Contact: John Homan at jchoman@owu.edu.