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State: Death Row Inmate Takes His Own Life

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published March 7, 2017 at 5:43 AM EST
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Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction

The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction says a death row inmate took his own life Sunday night at a prison in Chillcothe. 47-year-old Patrick Leonard was sentenced to death for the 2000 killing of his ex-girlfriend. The last death row suicide in Ohio was in 2013.

WCBE NewsChillicothe Correctional InstitutionOhio Department of Rehabilitation and CorrectionPatrick Leonard
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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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