Death Penalty

State of Ohio v. Clarence Fry, Jr., Case no. 2006-1502

Summit County

In this case, the Court is asked to reverse the aggravated murder conviction and death sentence of Clarence Fry for the 2005 stabbing death of his girlfriend, Tamela Hardison. A jury found Fry guilty of aggravated murder with two separate death penalty specifications: one alleging that he killed Hardison either in retaliation for filing an assault charge against him two weeks earlier or to prevent her from testifying in that case; and a second specification alleging that he caused Hardison's death during the commission of aggravated burglary.