Entries tagged with “Donald Ketterer”

Policy Issues

Mental Illness

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Jul 09, 2024

Disability Pride Month Series: Serious Mental Illness Exemptions and Legislation

This July, in hon­or of Disability Pride Month, the Death Penalty Information Center is post­ing a week­ly fea­ture high­light­ing issues relat­ed to the death penal­ty and dis­abil­i­ty, as well as indi­vid­u­als who have played key roles in chang­ing the laws to pro­tect prisoners with…

Policy Issues

Mental Illness

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Recent Legislative Activity

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Oct 22, 2021

Second Ohio Prisoner Taken Off Death Row Under New Serious Mental Illness Law

A sec­ond Ohio death-row pris­on­er has been resen­tenced to life with­out parole under a new state law that makes indi­vid­u­als who were seri­ous­ly men­tal­ly ill at the time of their crime inel­i­gi­ble for the death…