Ohio Parole Board says death row inmate Tyrone Noling should have his sentence commuted to life

The Ohio Parole Board recommended Tuesday that a prisoner who has spent 30 years on death row for two murders he says he did not commit should have his sentenced commuted to life in prison with the possibility of parole as early as 2029. The recommendation landed on Gov. Mike DeWine’s desk a week after Tyrone Noling asked the board for a full pardon. Now the fate of the 54-year-old Noling, whose bid for exoneration has garnered celebrity support from Kim Kardashian and actors Hilarie Burton and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, is in the hands of an outgoing Republican governor who, as a state senator, co-sponsored the legislation that reinstated capital punishment in Ohio in 1981. Noling’s attorneys. “We hope Governor DeWine will pardon Tyrone and allow an innocent man to go home at last.” DeWine has the power to pardon Noling, but he can also reduce his sentence or stay the execution to provide more time to pursue a legal remedy.

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