State v. Weind

IA.

Appellant’s first five propositions of law attack the constitutionality of Ohio’s death penalty statutes.

In his first proposition of.law, appellant contends that the Ohio statutory scheme places unconstitutional limitations upon the consideration of mitigating circumstances, since the character and history .of the defendant do. no.t constitute separate mitigating circumstances, bnt are considered only in terms of establishing duress, coercion, strong provocation, psychosis, or mental deficiency, all of which focus the trial judge’s attention on the defendant’s condition or state of mind at…