SPARE THE VOLUNTEER--With the Ohio Statehouse reflected in a window of the Riffe Center, Rev. Leslie E. Stansbery joins others in protesting the scheduled execution of Wilford Berry, in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 1999. Berry is called "the volunteer" do to his desire to be executed, and is scheduled on Feb. 19 to be the first Ohioan to be put to death by the State since1963. (JACK KUSTRON/photoj.com)

TELL US SOMETHING--Sen. Rhine McLin, D-Dayton, is surrounded by television crews as she waits to attend a meeting of legislatures with Gov. Bob Taft, at the Riffe Center, in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 1999. To the right is Fred Strahorn, who is an aide to Sen. Mark Mallory, D-Cincinnati. Mallory organized the meeting in an attempt to persuade Taft to commute the death sentence of Wilfred Berry to life. Berry is scheduled to be put to death by leathal injection on Feb. 19. (JACK KUSTRON/photoj.com)