HUBBARD, Ohio -- The intended victim of a murder-for-hire in northeast Ohio survived, but his mother was killed in a 1995 crime that sent the shooter to death row. Jason Getsy faces execution by lethal injection next Tuesday in the death of 66-year-old Ann Serafino at her Hubbard home. Her then-39-year-old son Charles was wounded. Prosecutors say Getsy hit Ann Serafino on the head with a revolver then stood over her and shot her twice.
Governor Ted Strickland must decide whether to accept the parole board's recommendation to spare Getsy's life. The board was concerned that the man who orchestrated the crime got 35 years to life in prison, not the death penalty. A business rival of Charles Serafino had offered Getsy and two others $5,000 to kill him.
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