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Clemency Granted for Convicted Killer Too Obese for Execution

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Credit: Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections

This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections shows inmate Ronald Post. Ohio Gov. John Kasich commuted Post's death sentence on Monday.

December 17, 2012 Updated Dec 17, 2012 at 5:34 PM PDT

Ohio's governor on Monday commuted the death sentence of convicted murderer Ronald Post, but not because of the obese inmate's claim that he was too large to be executed.

Republican Gov. John Kasich said in a statement that Post's legal representation "did not rise to the level that society has come to expect in death penalty cases." Post will instead spend life in prison with no chance of parole, The Associated Press reported. On Friday, a parole board had recommended that Post's death sentence be commuted to a life term, according to Reuters.

Post, 53, had been scheduled to die Jan. 16 for the 1983 shooting death of Helen Vantz in northern Ohio. The woman worked in an Elyria, Ohio motel Post was robbing, and died after the man shot her twice in the back of the head.

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