25 August 2019 :

Cuyahoga County Judge Deena Calabrese imposed the death sentence on Thomas Knuff. Knuff was convicted in the May 2017 killings of John Mann and Regina Copabianco in their home. Jurors recommended on July 23 (see) that Knuff be executed, and Calabrese accepted their recommendation. Knuff became the third person this year to be condemned to death row from a Cuyahoga County courtroom. Knuff befriended Capobianco through an inmate-to-inmate pen-pal program in the 2000s and moved in with her and Mann on Nelwood Road in Parma Heights in April 2017 when he was released on parole, after serving 15 years for an aggravated robbery conviction. Capobianco’s and Knuff’s convictions meant they could not live with each other while on parole. An argument over which one was going to stay with Mann ensued and escalated until Knuff stabbed them both, prosecutors said.