COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Trumbull County prosecutor is disappointed with the execution reprieve given to a condemned killer from Champion.

It's the result of Governor John Kasich rescheduling executions for 19 inmates on Ohio's death row.

Prosecutor Dennis Watkins says the reprieves are part of the Governor's decision to limit executions to six per year.  

"I,  with all due respect, would believe that the better policy decision would have been to have more executions than six a year," Watkins said. 

Watkins was the lead prosecutor in the 1999 case of Stanley Adams who was convicted of killing three people, including a 12-year-old girl that he also raped. The reprieve delays his execution until 2022.

"He's a serial killer, a child rapist and child killer.  He should, in my opinion,  should have been left as he was, to be executed in 2020," said Watkins.
 
Also receiving a rescheduled execution until  2022 is John Drummond, a Youngstown gang member convicted of killing a three-month old boy in 2003.

With 150 inmates on Ohio's death row, prosecutors say delays only add to the backlog and the burden on victims families. 

"Then you're getting into cases where the executions are coming 20 to 30 years after the crime," Assistant Mahoning County Prosecutor, Ralph Rivera said.

 "I believe the justice system needs to have penalties effectuated in a reasonable period of time," according to Watkins.

The prosecutor says he is only talking about cases like Stanley Adams, where there is absolutely no doubt of guilt. 

"When you kill a child you should die soon when the system has provided you with a fair trial," Watkins added.

After the rescheduling, the latest execution would be John Drummond on April 21, 2022.