COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The state Supreme Court has for the third time upheld the death sentence for Ohio’s only condemned female killer.
The court ruled 6-1 Tuesday in the case of Donna Roberts, sentenced to death for a third time in 2014.
In the past, the court said a prosecutor improperly helped prepare a sentencing motion in Roberts’ case and that a judge hadn’t fully considered factors that could argue against a death sentence.
Justice Terrence O’Donnell, writing for the majority, rejected arguments that allowing a new judge to sentence Roberts after the original judge died was unconstitutional.
The 73-year-old Roberts was accused of planning her ex-husband’s murder with a boyfriend in hopes of collecting insurance money.
The boyfriend, Nathaniel Jackson, also was sentenced to death in the 2001 slaying.
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