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Capital murder refers to a category of murder in some parts of the US for which the perpetrator is eligible for the death penalty. [1] In its original sense, capital murder was a statutory offence of aggravated murder in Great Britain, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland, which was later adopted as a legal provision to define certain forms of aggravated murder in the United States.
Ohio differentiates between "Aggravated Murder (First-Degree Murder)" and "Murder (Second-Degree Murder)." Aggravated Murder consists of purposely causing the death of another (or unlawful termination of a pregnancy) with prior calculation and design, or purposely causing the death of another under the age of 13, a law enforcement officer, or ...
Aggravated assault, for example, is usually differentiated from simple assault by the offender's intent (e.g., to murder or to rape), the extent of injury to the victim, or the use of a deadly weapon. An aggravating circumstance is a kind of attendant circumstance and the opposite of an extenuating or mitigating circumstance, which decreases guilt.
A three-judge panel, led by Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Robert Brown, delivered the verdict on October 12, 1993, finding 20-year-old Marvallous Keene guilty of all 20 counts, including aggravated murder, aggravated burglary, attempted aggravated murder, kidnapping, burglary and aggravated robbery.
Donald L. "Duke" Palmer Jr. (February 11, 1965 – September 20, 2012) was an American convicted murderer who was executed by the state of Ohio for the aggravated murders, alongside his accomplice Edward Hill, of Charles Sponhaltz and Steven Vargo in 1989.
The murder rate in the United Kingdom fell to 1 per 100,000 by the beginning of the 20th century and as low as 0.62 per 100,000 in 1960, and was at 1.28 per 100,000 as of 2009. The murder rate in France (excluding Corsica) bottomed out after World War II at less than 0.4 per 100,000, quadrupling to 1.6 per 100,000 since then. [115]
Grate was convicted on two counts of aggravated murder on May 7, 2018, in Ashland County, pleaded guilty to two additional murders on March 1, 2019, in Richland County, and pleaded guilty to an additional murder on September 11, 2019, in Marion County. Grate was sentenced to death and is scheduled to be executed in 2025.
After their arrests, both Danny Lee Hill and Timothy Combs were charged with kidnapping, rape, aggravated arson, felonious sexual penetration, aggravated robbery and aggravated murder. For the most serious charge of aggravated murder, the legal punishment under Ohio state law was either the death penalty or life imprisonment .