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State: Death Row Inmate Takes His Own Life

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.

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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