The Ohio Parole Board is recommending against mercy for a condemned Ohio inmate who claims he’s innocent in a killing that sent him to death row.

The Supreme Court has reinstated for a second time the death sentence of a neo-Nazi convicted of murdering three men in Ohio more than a quarter century ago.

Texas and other states that lead the nation in executions are sentencing many fewer inmates to death, a trend that slowly is reducing the death row population in the United States, a report from an anti-capital punishment group says.

The state is fighting to reinstate the death sentence of a convicted killer, arguing he must prove again that he is mentally disabled under U.S. Supreme Court standards.

The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will look at whether a self-described neo-Nazi should be sentenced to death, the second time this year that the high court will review a state appeal of an overturned death sentence in Ohio.

Citing a judge’s error, the Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out the death sentence of a woman who killed her 4-year-old son and set a fire to hide evidence of the crime.