Academic report

Prisoners on Ohio Execution List Defined by Intellectual Impairment, Mental Illness, Trauma and Young Age

By Fair Punishment Project, on 1 January 2017


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26 individuals that Ohio intends to execute each suffer from some combination of severe mental illness, intellectual disability, serious childhood trauma from physical and sexual abuse, or were young adults with impaired judgment when they committed their crimes.

  • Document type Academic report
  • Themes list Mental Illness, Intellectual Disability, Death Penalty,



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