Entries tagged with “Donald Ketterer”
Issues
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 disabilities. This year, at least 4 of the 9 individuals executed presented strong evidence of serious mental health impairments. In light of longstanding concerns from experts and defense counsel, some state legislatures…
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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 penalty. Donald Ketterer, who was sentenced to death in Butler County in February 2004, was transferred from death row in Ohio’s Chillicothe Correctional Institution on October 6, 2021 to a state prison in Warren County after a Butler County Court of Common Pleas ruling in September that…