Mark Wiles

Murdered by the State of Ohio; April 18, 2012

Mark Wiles

DOB: 3/11/63
County; Portage


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Several reasons why clemency should have been applied to this case:

• Acceptance of responsibility: Mark Wiles fully confessed and does not deny he alone murdered young Mark Klima, an innocent victim, of his selfish greed
• Good behavior in prison: Mark Wiles has been a model inmate. He also has helped a fellow inmate who had a stroke with that fellow’s hygiene and other daily needs.
• Sincere remorse and regret: Mark Wiles has had a gnawing distress from his guilt for the murder of Mark Klima. He has expressed this remorse and regret from the beginning. Mark Wiles would have pled guilty at trial had that been offered to him.
• Mark Wiles is not the “worst of the worst”

• His trial attorneys failed to uncover abuse in his childhood.
• His trial attorneys failed to uncover that he had been under the influence of barbiturates prior to entering the Klima’s house on the day of the murder.
• His attorneys failed to investigate a head injury he sustained twelve days prior to the murder.

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News articles related to Mark Wiles
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Judge Frost Gives Ohio Another Chance, 4-4-12 Opinion

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Some of the death row men who knew Mark asked me to share the Memorial Service Program here on Marks page.

In addition to them wishing to remember Mark, they also ask that we remember the people who now have to minister to the condemned inmates since they have been moved to CCI.

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