No mercy for Ronald Phillips: Execution recommended for Akron child rapist and murderer

The Ohio Parole Board has recommended that Gov. John Kasich move forward with the execution of Ronald Phillips, an Akron man convicted of raping and murdering a 3-year-old girl.Phillips’ friends and attorneys sought mercy last week in Columbus. Phillips, 43, has been on death row since 1993. He’s scheduled to be the first man executed in Ohio since Dennis McGuire, who in 2014 suffered for 26 minutes before dying — the longest in Ohio’s history — after lethal injecti