June 17, 2005

Death Row inmate asks parole board
for clemency

By Mary Ann Wyand

During an Indiana Parole Board hearing on June 13 at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Ind., Death Row inmate Michael Allen Lambert asked board members to spare his life and commute his capital sentence to life in prison without parole.

Lambert, who is 34, is scheduled to be executed by chemical injection on June 22 at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City for fatally shooting Muncie Police Department Officer Gregg Winters on Dec. 28, 1990.

Lambert was intoxicated when he was apprehended as he crawled away from the scene of a traffic accident.

While handcuffed in the patrol car, Lambert was able to shoot Officer Winters with a .25-caliber pistol.

The Indiana Parole Board has scheduled a public hearing on Lambert’s clemency petition at 9 a.m. on June 17 at the Indiana Government Center in Indianapolis.

The parole board’s recommendation will be sent to Gov. Mitch Daniels for his decision on the pending execution. Unless Gov. Daniels commutes his capital sentence to life in prison without parole, Lambert will be the fourth Indiana Death Row inmate executed by the state in 2005. †

 

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