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Reuters General/ - Article, Ter, 17 de Abril de 2012<br />
CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL (Supreme Court)<br />
Ohio to execute farm hand who murdered<br />
boy<br />
By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND | Tue Apr 17, 2012<br />
7:40pm EDT (Reuters) - Ohio is scheduled on<br />
Wednesday to execute a 49-year-old man who<br />
stabbed a tee<strong>na</strong>ge boy to death when the boy<br />
discovered the farm hand burglarizing his horse farm<br />
in 1985. Mark Wiles is set to be put to death by lethal<br />
injection at 10 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctio<strong>na</strong>l<br />
Facility in Lucasville. He would be the 14th person<br />
executed in the United States this year. He was<br />
sentenced to die for the August 7, 1985, murder of<br />
15-year-old Mark Klima, a top student who aspired to<br />
be a doctor. Wiles stabbed the boy 24 times with a<br />
kitchen knife. Wiles worked at Klima's family horse<br />
farm in Rootstown in northern Ohio and had been<br />
stealing from the family for some time. A panel of three<br />
judges convicted Wiles the following year, not<br />
persuaded by a doctor's testimony that Wiles had<br />
suffered a head injury 12 days before the murder that<br />
may have affected his impulse control. At his clemency<br />
hearing last month, Wiles said he "was not sure he<br />
was worthy of clemency." It was denied. The execution<br />
was allowed to proceed after U.S. District Judge<br />
Gregory Frost lifted an order that had postponed two<br />
previously scheduled executions this year. On April 4,<br />
Frost denied Wiles' motion to delay his execution,<br />
ruling the state had fixed problems with its death<br />
pe<strong>na</strong>lty protocols after the botched execution of<br />
Romell Broom in September 2009. Prison<br />
spokeswoman JoEllen Smith said Wiles requested for<br />
his fi<strong>na</strong>l meal the night before the execution a<br />
pepperoni pizza, a bag of cheese puffs, strawberries, a<br />
salad with Ranch dressing, cheesecake, and a vanilla<br />
wafer. Ohio has executed 46 people since the state<br />
resumed executions in 1999. Executions were<br />
temporarily halted by a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court<br />
ruling that threw out federal and state death pe<strong>na</strong>lty<br />
statutes, prompting states to revamp their laws and<br />
procedures. Executions resumed in 1976. There were<br />
43 executions in the United States in 2011. (Editing by<br />
Andrew Stern and Greg McCune; Desking by Cynthia<br />
Osterman)<br />
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