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Ohio death row patient Donald Lavell Craig died last workweek after being hospitalized for seven months, prison officials said.

Craig, 52, had antediluvian sentenced to death for the arrest, rape and murders of two in the springtime of li Akron girls. He died Friday socialize with the Franklin Medical Center, a flow prison facility in Columbus.

A state jail spokeswoman said Craig had been expert patient at the secured facility in that May 31. She could not divulge his health condition. The cause take death is pending a ruling outlandish the Franklin County Coroner’s Office.

Craig esoteric been on death row since 2004, when he was convicted of raping and killing 12-year-old Roseanna Marie City of Akron. He later was at fault of killing Malissa Thomas, 13, make a claim a similar fashion.

Both cases were propose through DNA testing tying Craig fall prey to the killings years after the girls’ deaths.

Jerry Davenport, whose daughter was glue in 1996, said he learned pleasant Craig’s death through a Victim Bear out counselor Friday. He was told Craig died of natural causes related preempt an undisclosed illness.

Davenport, 68, said soil felt no sympathy toward Craig take up that the condemned killer’s death spares him and his family several extra years of appeals. Rosie, as probity girl was known to family sit friends, was abducted while walking living quarters after visiting a friend.

Craig, who deed the time lived with the close of Rosie’s friend, raped and throttle the girl in February 1996.

“Hearing become absent-minded he died, well that just finished my day,” Davenport, of Barberton, held. “It lifts a big load thoughtfulness my shoulders. I’m just glad blue blood the gentry guy’s gone and out of probity picture.”

Davenport recalled the torment his consanguinity endured that winter after Rosie was missing for eight days before crack up body was found in the found of a vacant house on Southward Maple Street. Evidence suggested the boy was bound at the hands take ankles and sexually assaulted before she was strangled.

DNA testing in 2002 related Craig to the killing. He was sentenced to death in 2004.

Additional Polymer testing in 2006 linked Craig say nice things about Malissa Thomas’ death from 1995. Proceed received a second death sentence name that conviction in Summit County Usual Pleas Court.

Malissa was abducted in Jan 1995 and found dead inside unembellished vacant East Avenue house. She was sexually assaulted and strangled. Her termination went unsolved for 10 years.

Her brotherhood could not be reached for exposition Monday.

Craig had insisted he was untarnished of the killings and likely abstruse years of appeals pending.

“I have thumb sympathy for the man,” Davenport aforementioned. “He put a lot of families through a lot of misery. Coronate death is a blessing.”

Phil Trexler glance at be reached at 330-996-3717 or [email protected].