COLUMBUS, Ohio: The Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the death sentence for an Illinois man convicted of abducting his estranged girlfriend from Kentucky in 2014 and killing her along an Ohio highway.
Death row inmate Terry Froman was sentenced to death in 2017 by a Warren County jury for shooting Kimberly Thomas on Interstate 75 in southwestern Ohio.
Prosecutors say Froman became vengeful when Thomas ordered him out of her Mayfield, Kentucky, home. They say Froman abducted Thomas from Kentucky after fatally shooting Thomas 17-year-old son, Michael Mohney.
Froman shot and killed the 34-year-old Thomas as troopers prepared to approach his car after pulling it over, and then shot himself but survived, according to court records. He received the death sentence because the crimes involved the death of two people.
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