The Ohio Attorney General’s Office has filed a motion with the U.S. Sixth District Court of Appeals in Cincinnati seeking a ruling on an appeal filed by convicted killer John David Stumpf.

The motion requested the court proceed to a final disposition, as the case has been pending since oral arguments on July 26, 2007.

Stumpf was sentenced to death on Sept. 27, 1984, for killing 54-year-old Mary Jane Stout on May 13 of that same year.

He was also convicted of trying to kill Stout’s husband, Norman, in the couple’s New Concord area home.

The case has been with the Sixth Circuit court since July 19, 2005, when the U.S. Supreme Cour... 0 comments  Read Story