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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]
The execution took place on September 8, when Granger was 16 or 17 years old; prior to the execution, the animals involved in Granger's case were slaughtered in front of him. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The youngest person to have been executed in the 20th century was likely Joe Persons, a boy executed by hanging in Georgia on September 24, 1915 for the rape ...
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]
An Ohio father was spared the possibility of being put to d eath after he admitted Friday to fatally shooting his three young sons last year in a series of killings that prosecutors described as ...
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 ...
It was also noted that Ohio scheduled the execution dates of the condemned at a heightened rate during that year of 2009 itself, with at least one death warrant per month, and Keene was one of the five executed in Ohio that same year. [51] Keene was the 31st condemned inmate to be executed in Ohio since the state's resumption of executions in 1999.
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On March 31, 2015, Marie Belcastro, aged 94, was murdered in her Niles, Ohio home by Jacob Larosa, her 15-year-old neighbor. Larosa, who had numerous prior cases in juvenile court, had been released from a juvenile detention facility hours before. He broke into Belcastro’s residence, and, using a MAG flashlight, beat her to death.