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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A convicted killer who fatally shot a man nearly 40 years ago has been removed from Ohio's death row under a new law that prohibits the execution of people who had severe mental illness at the time of their crime.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A convicted killer who fatally shot a man nearly 40 years ago has been removed from Ohio's death row under a new law that prohibits

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A convicted killer who fatally shot a man nearly 40 years ago has...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A convicted killer who fatally shot a man nearly 40 years ago has...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A new Ohio law prohibiting the execution of people who had severe...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A new Ohio law prohibiting the execution of people who had severe...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A new Ohio law prohibiting the execution of people who had severe...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A new Ohio law prohibiting the execution of people who had severe...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A new Ohio law prohibiting the execution of people who had severe mental illness at the time of their crime has begun seeing its first implementations.

Black faith leaders, lawmakers, push to end death penalty By Andrew Welsh-Huggins - Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A coalition of Black ministers, lawmakers and national activists announced a new effort Tuesday to abolish the death penalty in Ohio, citing growing bipartisan opposition and the country’s recent reckoning over racial injustice. The death penalty is a modern cousin to lynching, with people of color disproportionately sentenced to death, said members of the Ohio Black Le...