John Spirko gestures during an interview Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008,
at the Toledo Correctional Institution
in Toledo, Ohio. Spirko's death sentence for the 1982 murder of
Betty Jane Mottinger was commuted
to life in prison without parole by Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland.
John Spirko answers a question during an interview Tuesday, Jan.
15, 2008,
at the Toledo Correctional Institution in Toledo, Ohio.
John Spirko gestures during an interview Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008,
at the Toledo Correctional Institution in Toledo, Ohio.
John Spirko listens to a question during an interview Tuesday,
Jan. 15, 2008,
at the Toledo Correctional Institution in Toledo, Ohio.
John George Spirko Jr. biography