Cleveland teen Alianna DeFreeze's killer gets death penalty as the Imperial Women Coalition applauds Judge Carolyn Friedland's decision for death for Christopher Whitaker (pictured below as is Alianna), saying that while they are not pro-death penalty in general due in part to the racial and undemocratic discrepancies in the nation's legal system, that in this matter the punishment fits the crime...."We are pleased that Judge Carolyn Friedland accepted the jury's recommendation for the death penalty for Mr Whitaker, and we will follow this case relative to any appeals and other legal matters that might open a loop hole for this monster," said community activist Kathy Wray Coleman of Cleveland, who leads the Imperial Women Coalition, a women's and children's rights group founded relative to heightened rape and murders of Black women and girls and other women and girls in Cleveland since 2009....Coleman invites the community to the 5th Anniversary of the Cleveland East 93rd Street Serial Murders Rally and Vigil, 5 pm, March 28, 2018 at Bessemer and East 93rd Street to also remember Alianna DeFreeze, who was murdered last year in an area near the East 93rd Street killings of Jazmine Trotter, 20, Ashley Leszyeski, 21, Christine Malone, 45, and Jameela Hasan, 37 ....Activists will also remember Miriam Johnson, 31, whose dead body was discovered last week in a garbage can in Cleveland....Info at (216) 659-0473....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com

Fourteen-year-old Alianna DeFreeze of Cleveland, and her killer, 45-year-old Christopher Whitaker, who faces the death penalty 

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CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio-Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Carolyn Friedland, on Monday, sentenced teen rapist and murderer Christopher Whitaker to death, Whitaker found guilty last month by a 12-member Cuyahoga County jury of aggravated murder, rape, kidnapping and other crimes in the death of 14-year-old Alianna DeFreeze of Cleveland.

The same 12-member jury recommended a death sentence last month for the 45-year-old Whitaker, who had confessed, saying he was high on cocaine and acting out the morning of the gruesome murder. And he has apologized to the victim's family.

Donnesha Cooper, Alianna's mother, said Whitaker has no conscience 

"I don't believe he'll have any remorse until he suffers like my daughter suffered," said Cooper at sentencing on Monday, who was among several speakers at court seeking justice for the teen's murder, including Alianna's father, Donald DeFreeze, a grandmother, and  her stepmother. 

Whitaker raped and dismembered the 7th grader, who was Black, as is he, at an abandoned home in January of last year in the Kinsman -Mount Pleasant neighborhood on Cleveland's largely Black east side.

But Whitaker and his lawyers did not want him put to death, the height of punishment in the state of Ohio for aggravated murder.

Some community activists say that while that are not pro-death penalty in general due in part to the racial and undemocratic discrepancies in the nation's legal system, that in this matter they applaud Judge Friedland's decision for death for the teen murderer.

"We are pleased that Judge Carolyn Friedland accepted the jury's recommendation for the death penalty for Mr Whitaker, and we will follow this case realtive to any appeals and other legal matters that might open a loop hole for this monster," said community activist Kathy Wray Coleman of Cleveland, who leads the Imperial Women Coalition, a women's and children's rights group founded relative to heightened rape and murders of Black women and girls and other women and girls in Cleveland since 2009.

The girl's dismembered body was found in an abandoned home that January morning in 2017 at the the 9400 block of Fullmer Avenue, after she was snatched by Whitaker in the 3400 block of East 149th Street as she was getting off the RTA bus headed to school.

Alianna never arrived at school, and her mother, notified some 10 hours later by school authorities of her absence from school that day, filed a missing person's report.

The teen's maimed body was identified by the Cuyahoga County medical examiner's office through dental records.

Whitaker used his sex offender's address of South Euclid, Ohio but lived in Cleveland, investigators said. He served time in prison for sexual battery, among other convictions, and is in jail held on a $3 million bond.

DNA linked Whitaker to the crime.

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.