Chapter 6: Deserving of Death?

Accused

Cincinnati Enquirer

True Crime, Documentary, Exhibit C, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Hamilton County, Ohio, is known nationwide as having one of the highest capital punishment rates per capita – and a recent 25-year study shows that race plays a huge role in determining who’s sent to die. Elwood Jones is Black. His victim was white. If the pandemic had not intervened and last-minute attempts for a new trial put on hold, Jones would already have been dead. If he is innocent, that’s a tragedy. If he is not, did the punishment fit the crime? He is again scheduled to be executed in 2023.

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0:00.0	Join Wundry Plus and Apple Podcasts or the Wundry app to binge all seven episodes of
0:05.7	Accused Season 4, the impending execution of Elwood Jones, Early and Add Free.
0:12.3	Since not the inquire in USA Today's subscribers can also listen early and add free by going to
0:17.9	AccusedPodcast.com.
0:25.1	Previously unaccused.
0:27.1	I'm trying to say this case had a stench about it.
0:29.9	It had a feeling about it that there was evidence that was not the way it was portrayed in court
0:35.7	that it was something other than that.
0:37.4	I know that they tried to say, well, the police plan ended up hurt, piece of jewelry.
0:42.8	But, you know, I've done no way that I could be swayed any way.
0:47.9	If you find something that would so directly link someone to that crime, why did it take
0:54.2	you a year to follow Becca?
0:56.1	There was all the evidence.
0:58.1	I don't see how he could not have been guilty.
1:05.7	When Rhoda Nathan was violently beaten to death in 1994, no one in her family had experienced
1:12.2	anything quite like it.
1:14.4	No one except for Jeffrey Kirsch.
1:17.4	Jeffrey, a lawyer, was married to Cynthia Kirsch, who was daughter of Elaine Schube,
1:22.8	but his best friend and the woman whose screams alerted all of the embassy suites to the homicide
1:28.4	in room 237 on that fateful day.
1:32.5	In a bizarre coincidence, Jeffrey's own grandmother had died in similar fashion.
1:38.2	My grandmother was murdered.
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