Sean Carter was sentenced to death by the State of Ohio for the murder of Veader Prince
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An execution date is set for Trumbull County death row inmate Sean Carter
The Ohio Supreme Court has set Jan. 22, 2025, as the date to carry out the death sentence for Carter, 42, who was convicted of the rape and fatal stabbing of his adoptive grandmother.
The date was set at the request of the Trumbull County Prosecutor’s Office.
Carter was 18 when Veader Prince was slain Sept. 13, 1997, at her Southington home.
After passing through several foster homes, Carter was adopted by Evelyn Prince Carter when he was 10. In February 1997, Carter was kicked out of his home and went to live with Evelyn Carter’s mother, Prince.
After being jailed, Carter tried to return to Prince’s home to live on Sept. 13, 1997. However, she wouldn’t have it, according to court records, and gave him car keys to leave. Carter left the home, but shortly returned to try to convince the woman to change her mind. An argument ensued, it turned physical, and Sean Carter got a knife.
An autopsy revealed that Prince had been stabbed 18 times, suffered blunt-force trauma to the head and had been sodomized.
The next day Carter was caught in Beaver County, Pa., and later confessed.
In a trial during March 1998, a Trumbull County jury convicted Carter of aggravated murder and two counts of the capital specifications — aggravated robbery and rape. The jury also found Carter guilty of aggravated robbery, rape and the lesser included offense of aggravated burglary.
The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Trumbull County ruled in August 2018 to uphold the murder conviction of Carter, who had attempted to avoid execution by claiming that he was incompetent at the time of his original trial. On Oct. 11, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear his case.
Prosecutor Dennis Watkins and Assistant Prosecutor Ashleigh Musick asked the high court to consider setting a date of execution for Carter.
“It is clear that appellant has exhausted his state and federal court reviews of his conviction and sentence,” they wrote. “Moreover, (Carter) has been imprisoned for over 22 years since his death sentence was imposed. Justice delayed has been justice denied to the survivors of Veader Prince. Accordingly, the state of Ohio respectively moves this court for an order setting an execution date.”
Carter is housed at the Warren Correctional Institution in Lebanon, Ohio.
The last inmate to be executed by the state was Robert Van Hooke, 58, who died of lethal injection July 18, 2018. The next scheduled execution, according to the Ohio Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation website, is Cleveland R. Jackson of Allen County. He is scheduled to die Jan. 13, 2021.
Ohio Public Defender Tim Young released the following statement about setting the death date for Carter.
“Sean Carter … remains persistently and grossly psychotic,” Young wrote. “He is so ill he cannot even be housed and properly cared for on death row and is housed at a separate residential treatment unit in another prison to address his severe mental illness.
“The courts have already ruled that he is incompetent, due to his chronic schizophrenia, and the execution of the incompetent is something that the United States Supreme Court long ago determined to be unconstitutional,” Young wrote.
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