An Ashland County judge has handed down a death sentence to the man convicted of strangling two women and suspected in two more deaths.
The judge Friday accepted a jury's recommendation that 41-year-old Shawn Grate should get the death penalty. Grate was convicted nearly a month ago of killing two women in 2016 in an Ashland home. The Richland County prosecutor has said he will pursue charges against Grate in the slayings of two more women.
