2026-08-19T08:46:00-0400 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
一名因双重谋杀罪在俄亥俄州死囚区关押了三十年的囚犯本周获得了罕见机会，可在州假释委员会面前请求全面赦免，他坚称自己并未犯下该罪行。
来自联盟镇的54岁囚犯蒂龙·诺林周二向俄亥俄州假释委员会陈述了自己的案情。在致力于防止误判并为蒙冤囚犯平反的组织“俄亥俄无罪项目”的支持下，诺林在听证会上展示了越来越多的证据。
这些证据包括翻供的证人证词、审判时的警长和一名陪审员改变了立场，以及指向一名已被处决的杀手可能为真凶的线索。
他的案件曾被拍成纪录片和真实犯罪播客，并获得了金·卡戴珊、演员希拉里·伯顿和杰弗里·迪恩·摩根等名人的关注，他们都支持为诺林平反。据死刑信息中心称，这起案件也引发了人们对在没有实物证据关联的情况下定罪并判处死刑的做法的质疑。该非营利组织不对死刑本身持立场，仅提供死刑执行方式的相关研究。
诺林因1990年代一对老年夫妇在家中遇害案被定罪，他始终声称自己无罪。死刑信息中心表示，当时没有实物证据，一些证人在审判期间作出了不利于诺林的证词，但后来翻供称最初是受到检察官的压力才作出此类陈述。
周二的听证会是自2020年以来俄亥俄州死囚首次举行的赦免听证会，会后假释委员会将向州长迈克·德温提交建议，最终决定权在德温手中。这位共和党州长在6月呼吁废除死刑，称其立场已改变，因为他不再认为死刑对暴力犯罪具有威慑作用。
死囚通常只有在收到处决令后才能获得赦免听证会，而诺林目前尚未收到处决令，因此赢得周二的听证会本身已是一场胜利。他希望获释，并表示不会接受将其刑期减为终身监禁且不得假释的判决，因为他并未犯下该罪行。
诺林因1990年4月5日杀害贝恩哈特·哈蒂格和科拉·哈蒂格夫妇一案被定罪，两名受害者均为81岁，遇害地点位于他们在波蒂奇县的家中。邻居发现他们的割草机在屋前停放了数天，随后进屋发现了两人的尸体。贝恩哈特·哈蒂格身中三枪，其妻子身中五枪，作案凶器为.25口径自动手枪。房屋被洗劫一空。
当局称，当时刚满18岁的诺林是一个专门抢劫老年夫妇的团伙成员。该团伙另外三名成员当时分别为14岁、15岁和16岁，他们在入室盗窃案中指认诺林为杀害哈蒂格夫妇的凶手，但后来撤回了证词，称警方逼迫他们指认诺林为枪手。
针对诺林的最初加重抢劫罪指控于1992年被撤销，但大陪审团于1995年再次以哈蒂格夫妇谋杀案起诉他。他于1996年被判处死刑。
没有任何实物证据将诺林与这起案件联系起来，作案凶器也始终未被找到。诺林的支持者称，包括执法部门笔记和在哈蒂格夫妇车道上发现的烟蒂在内的证据，指向了另外两名潜在嫌疑人。其中一人是丹·威尔逊，他于2009年在俄亥俄州因另一项罪行被注射处决。诺林的律师在法庭文件中写道，一名男子告诉当局，他的寄养兄弟威尔逊曾吹嘘自己犯下了这起谋杀案。
现年83岁的前波蒂奇县警长肯·豪将在周二的听证会上作为众多为诺林作证的证人之一。在接受美联社采访时，他表示当时就存在诸多疑点，此后积累的证据也让他转而支持诺林。
“我认为这些男孩过去是，现在也是无辜的，”他说道。
波蒂奇县检察官康妮·莱万多夫斯基和代表诺林的团队律师凯特琳·弗拉纳根未立即回复寻求置评的单独电话留言。
听证会结束后，委员会将在闭门会议中进行审议，预计将于8月25日前向州长提交建议。
Ohio death row inmate, backed by ex-sheriff and celebrities, asks parole board for full pardon
2026-08-19T08:46:00-0400 / CBS/AP
An inmate sentenced to death in Ohio had a rare opportunity this week to ask for a full pardon before the state’s parole board, after spending three decades on death row for a double murder that he insists he did not commit.
Tyrone Noling, 54, of Alliance, presented his case Tuesday to the Ohio Parole Board. Backed by the Ohio Innocence Project, an organization that works to prevent wrongful convictions and exonerate wrongfully convicted prisoners, Noling assembled a growing body of evidence to share during the hearing.
That includes recanted witness testimony, changed stances by the sheriff and one of the jurors at his trial, and clues pointing to an already executed killer as the possible perpetrator.
His case has been the subject of documentaries and true-crime podcasts and garnered celebrity attention from Kim Kardashian and actors Hilarie Burton and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who all support his exoneration. The case also called into question the practice of convicting and sentencing inmates to death for crimes to which no physical evidence had linked them, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit that doesn’t take a position on capital punishment but provides research on how it is carried out.
Noling was convicted in the 1990 murders of an elderly couple in their home, which he has always said he did not commit. In lieu of physical evidence, some witnesses gave statements against Noling during his trial, but later recanted their statements and said they were initially pressured by the prosecutor to give them, the Death Penalty Information Center says.
Tyrone Noling, who was convicted in 1996 of murdering an elderly couple and has maintained his innocence, is pictured June 15, 2005, in Mansfield, Ohio. Thomas Ondrey, The Plain Dealer via AP, File
Following Tuesday’s hearing, the first for an Ohio death row inmate since 2020, the parole board will issue its recommendation to Gov. Mike DeWine, who has the final say. DeWine, a Republican, called in June for abolishment of the death penalty — saying his stance has changed because he no longer views capital punishment as a deterrent to violent crime.
Death row inmates don’t typically land clemency hearings until they have an execution date, which Noling does not, so winning Tuesday’s hearing was a victory. He seeks release from prison and has said he would not accept a commutation to life without parole for a crime he didn’t commit.
Noling was convicted in the April 5, 1990, killings of Bearnhardt and Cora Hartig, both 81, at their Portage County home. The couple’s bodies were discovered on the kitchen floor of their Atwater Township home by a neighbor who noticed their lawn mower had been in front of their home for several days. Bearnhardt Hartig had been shot three times and his wife five times with a .25-caliber automatic handgun. The house had been ransacked.
Authorities said Noling, who had just turned 18 at the time, was part of a group involved in home robberies of elderly couples. Three others in the group — 14, 15 and 16 at the time — implicated Noling in the slayings of the Hartigs during a burglary but later retracted their statements, saying that police pressured them to name Noling as the shooter.
Initial aggravated burglary charges brought against Noling were dropped in 1992, but a grand jury reindicted him in 1995 for the Hartig murders. He was sentenced to death in 1996.
Larry Greene, public information director of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, demonstrates how a curtain is pulled between the death chamber and witness room at the prison in Lucasville, Ohio, in November 2005. AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File
No physical evidence tied him to the crime, and no murder weapon was ever found. Noling’s advocates say evidence, including law enforcement notes and a cigarette butt found in the Hartigs’ driveway, points to two other potential suspects. One is Dan Wilson, who was executed by lethal injection in Ohio in 2009 for a different crime. Noling’s lawyers wrote in court documents that a man told authorities that his foster brother, Wilson, bragged about committing the crime.
Former Portage County Sheriff Ken Howe, now 83, will be among a long line of witnesses testifying on Noling’s behalf at Tuesday’s hearing. In an Associated Press interview, he said that there were red flags at the time, and evidence that’s piled up since then has persuaded him to take Noling’s side.
“I believe that these boys were, and are, innocent,” he said.
Portage County Prosecutor Connie Lewandowski and Caitlin Flanagan, an attorney for a team representing Noling, did not immediately return separate phone messages seeking comment.
Following the hearing, the board will deliberate in executive session and is expected to deliver a recommendation to the governor by Aug. 25.
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