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Ohio Governor Commutes Another Death Sentence
Loaded on Nov. 6, 2018
published in Criminal Legal News
November, 2018, page 39
Ohio Governor John Kasich commuted another death sentence, his seventh, amid concerns from one of the jurors in the case that prosecutors hid crucial details about the defendant’s horrific upbringing and drug problems that would have swayed that juror to vote against the death penalty.
The juror wrote a letter ...
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