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House Bill 81

 
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Prohibit death sentence if have serious mental illness

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To amend sections 2929.02, 2929.022, 2929.024, 2929.03, 2929.04, 2929.06, 2953.21, and 2953.23 and to enact section 2929.025 of the Revised Code to provide that a person convicted of aggravated murder who shows that the person had a serious mental illness at the time of committing the offense cannot be sentenced to death for the offense and to provide a mechanism for resentencing to a life sentence a person previously sentenced to death who proves that the person had a serious mental illness at the time of committing the offense.

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Subjects

Committees

House Criminal Justice Committee
House Rules and Reference Committee

Primary Sponsors

Bill Seitz
Nickie J. Antonio
 

Cosponsors

Representatives
Louis W. Blessing III
Thomas E. Brinkman, Jr.
Jonathan Dever
Mike Duffey
Stephen D. Hambley
Michele Lepore-Hagan
Nathan H. Manning
Adam C. Miller
Craig S. Riedel
Scott Ryan
Kent Smith
Dick Stein
 

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