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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Jake Wagner and Hanna Rhoden had a daughter together and investigators from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation -- which handled the case -- said that custody and control of children was at the root of the killings.
43% : In exchange for his plea, prosecutors have dropped the possibility of a death penalty, sparing the 28-year-old his life.
41% : In addition, the state agreed to drop the death penalty for the rest of Jake Wagner's family.
39% : In paperwork filed with Pike County Common Pleas Court Friday, an attorney for George Wagner IV -- whose mother and brother have already pleaded guilty to killing eight members of the Rhoden family in 2016 -- says his client shot and killed no one and therefore is not eligible for the death penalty.
39% : Nevertheless, George Wagner IV's attorneys want the death penalty dropped for different reasons.
37% : But George Wagner IV's attorneys lay out the argument that since their client wasn't a triggerman, he clearly is not eligible for the death penalty.

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