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State Prisoner Sentenced For Killing Fellow Inmate

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published May 20, 2020 at 5:17 AM EDT

An Ohio prisoner who confessed to killing a fellow inmate in a letter has been convicted and sentenced to death. 

The verdict in the case of Joel Drain will automatically be appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court. He waived his right to a jury trial and pleaded no contest to the April 2019 slaying of 29-year-old Christopher Richardson at the Warren Correctional Institution. 
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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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