Ohio’s youngest death row inmate never touched the murder weapon. Why was he sentenced to death?

Franklin Zimring quoted by The Washington Post, Dec. 16, 2016

“It’s crystal clear that the difference between life or death is electing a jury trial, not what happened at the crime scene,” said Zimring, who has written about capital punishment. “The thing that makes that forcefully problematic is that the only difference between life and death is the procedural decision that the defendant made.”