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FILE – In this Feb. 3, 2018, file photo, Ross Geiger speaks as he poses for a photograph at his home in the Cincinnati suburb of Loveland, Ohio. Ohio Gov. John Kasich spared death row inmate Raymond Tibbetts on Friday, July 20, 2018, commuting the condemned killer's death sentence to life without the possibility of parole. Geiger, a juror who recommended the death sentence after Tibbetts was convicted of fatally stabbing Fred Hicks in 1997 in Cincinnati, came forward in 2017 to say he felt jurors weren't given enough information about the convicted killer's tough childhood. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Ohio killer spared after extent of childhood abuse revealed

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS - Associated Press

FILE – This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows death row inmate Raymond Tibbetts, convicted of fatally stabbing Fred Hicks in 1997 in Cincinnati. Ohio Parole Board members, who voted 11-1 in 2017 against sparing Tibbetts, scheduled a rare second clemency hearing Thursday, June 14, 2018, to hear directly from juror Ross Geiger, who recommended Tibbetts be sentenced to death but now says jurors weren't given enough information about the convicted killer's tough childhood. Tibbetts is currently set to be executed by lethal injection on Oct. 17, 2018, after Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich granted Tibbetts a temporary reprieve on Feb. 8, 2018. (Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction via AP, File)

Board again rejects mercy for killer despite juror’s concern

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS - Associated Press