Prosecutors want to try Georgia man with cancer

<p>Prosecutors in Ohio want to extradite a terminally ill cancer patient presently jailed in Georgia.</p><p>An extradition hearing is scheduled Thursday for Steven Nelson, 45, who is accused of fatally shooting two men during separate gas station robberies in southwest Ohio in 1978. Nelson, a Marietta native, is in jail in Cobb County.</p><p>Nelson has lung cancer, but has refused chemotherapy, Greene County Prosecutor William Schenck said, adding that doctors have cleared Nelson to travel.</p><p>"We're not interested in punishing him or being cruel or inhuman," Schenck said. "Nobody short of the good Lord knows how long he's going to live."</p><p>Defense attorney Anthony Zaharieff said Nelson is expected to live for only four to six months. Zaharieff said Nelson is being denied proper doses of chemotherapy and morphine.</p><p>Nelson is accused of shooting Steve Risner, 18, of Fairborn, Ohio, during a holdup in Xenia on Aug. 26, 1978. He is also accused of killing Homer Griffitts, 32, of Huber Heights, Ohio, during a robbery in Springfield four months later.</p>

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