Ohio death row inmate, backed by ex-sheriff, asks for full pardon

Updated on: August 19, 2026 / 8:50 AM EDT / CBS/AP An inmate sentenced to death in Ohio had a rare opportunity this week to ask for a full pardon before the state's parole board, after spending three decades on death row for a double murder that he insists he did not commit. Tyrone Noling, 54, of Alliance, presented his case Tuesday to the Ohio Parole Board. Backed by the Ohio Innocence Project, an organization that works to prevent wrongful convictions and exonerate wrongfully convicted prisoners, Noling assembled a growing body of evidence to share during the hearing. That includes recanted witness testimony, changed stances by the sheriff and one of the jurors at his trial, and clues pointing to an already executed killer as the possible perpetrator. His case has been the subject of documentaries and true-crime podcasts and garnered celebrity attention from Kim Kardashian and actors Hilarie Burton and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who all support his exoneration.

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