23-01-2018 12:56 via 10tv.com

Lawyers: Juries, not judges, should impose death sentences

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio's capital punishment law is unconstitutional because judges, not juries, impose death sentences in contrast to the 6th Amendment right to a jury trial, lawyers for a convicted killer argued before the state Supreme Court on Tuesday.Attorneys for ex-death row inmate Maurice Mason said a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court ruling declaring Florida's death penalty law unconstitutional based on the same jury principle should apply in Ohio.In that ruling, the court said the 6th Amendme
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