The Cincinnati Enquirer
LEBANON — Convicted killer Eugene Gall, who is serving a life term in Ohio after winning a reprieve from death row in Kentucky, wants to be returned to the Bluegrass State to spend his time in a mental institution.
Mr. Gall, who is in Lebanon Correctional Institution serving life for a murder and rapes in Ohio in the late 1970s, filed a writ of habeas corpus against Warden Anthony Brigano this week in Warren County Common Pleas Court.
He claims that Ohio and Kentucky authorities illegally colluded to put him in prison in Ohio when a federal judge overturned his Kentucky death sentence and ruled that he should be sent to a mental hospital.
His complaint, filed Sept. 11, said the Ohio prison terms were supposed to run consecutively to the Kentucky sentence. He is eligible for parole in Ohio in 2021, a date that Mr. Gall also is challenging. He says it was miscalculated and should be reduced by 10 years.
Mr. Gall, now 56, was convicted in Kentucky of abducting 12-year-old Lisa Jansen as she walked to school in suburban Cincinnati in April, 1978, then raping and fatally shooting the girl in Boone County.
He was arrested in Dry Ridge, Ky., after robbing a grocery and shooting a state trooper who was trying to apprehend him. Mr. Gall was subsequently tried and convicted in Ohio on the unrelated rapes and homicide.
Federal judges overturned the Kentucky death sentence last year, saying Mr. Gall, a paranoid schizophrenic, did not get a fair trial and belonged in a mental institution rather than prison.
