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Enquirer Editorial: Execution process must be open
There are no do-overs when it comes to the ultimate punishment, so let’s make sure it’s done right – as humanely and openly as possible – every single time.
Lima News Editorial: Sacrificing transparency a bad option in lethal-injection bill
“If the only way we can preserve this method of execution is by making it more secret, that, to me, is something of a sign that we shouldn’t be trying to preserve this method of execution.”
Kevin Werner Op-Ed: Ohio’s death penalty system in need of scrutiny, justice
In the next General Assembly session, state legislative leaders should take up the common sense reforms recommended by the Supreme Court Task Force. But they should immediately put aside the “secret executions” bill that will inevitably make Ohio’s death penalty system more flawed than it is already.
Funds set up to help the men exonerated for a murder they did not commit
“These men spent nearly four decades in prison. Right now they have nothing,” said Kevin Werner, executive director of Ohioans to Stop Executions.
EXONERATIONS: 3 Ohio men exonerated after total 105 years in prison
He spent his 18th birthday on death row. His mother, a brother and a sister died while he was in prison. His brother got to within three weeks of an execution date. “It just blew my mind!” Ajamu said.
Toledo Blade Editorializes Against Secret Executions Bill: “Dying to know”
This bill is not about the merits of capital punishment — it’s about holding government accountable…
NPR Morning Edition: Ohio Bill Would Shield Source Of Lethal Injection Drugs
“These are incredibly heinous crimes, I’m not arguing about that. But our justice system and our society has to hold itself out better than the people who commit those heinous crimes.”
National journalism group opposes Ohio lethal injection secrecy bill
“When it comes to carrying out a death sentence, more transparency and more reporting should be required, not less,” Neuts said.