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An Ohio father accused of fatally shooting his three young sons earlier this month pleaded not guilty Friday to 21 counts included in a grand jury indictment, and prosecutors vowed to seek the ...
Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held that it is unconstitutional to impose capital punishment for crimes committed while under the age of 18. [1]
An Ohio woman whose toddler died after she left her alone for more than a week while she went on vacation was sentenced to life in prison without parole Monday, the Cuyahoga County prosecutor said.
Juveniles: Death Penalty Worldwide Archived 2014-03-09 at the Wayback Machine Academic research database on the laws, practice, and statistics of capital punishment for every death penalty country in the world. Death Penalty Information Center – The Juvenile Death Penalty Prior to Roper v. Simmons; Capital Punishment
A mentally ill man, who had been on Ohio’s death row for two decades, saw his death sentence thrown out Monday under a recent state law that says people who have a serious mental illness are ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Ohio since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. [1] All of the following people have been executed for murder since the Gregg v. Georgia decision. All 56 were executed by lethal injection. [2]
Almost half the kids who pass through Ohio’s juvenile system get into more trouble within three years of their release: 21.9% land back in the juvenile prison system and another 22.3% end up in ...
The case received attention because Mosley, who used the knife to murder Back, received a sentence of life without parole because of a plea bargain, while Myers received a death sentence. [3] [7] Myers became the youngest inmate on death row in Ohio at the time. The murder caused proposed changes in Ohio state law to increase penalties for ...