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Lawmakers want to shroud Ohio’s executions in secrecy
The most fundamental right of all is the right to life. There must be reasonable outside scrutiny and accountability when the government itself is putting people to death.
Editor of Columbus Dispatch: Government secrecy keeps public in the dark
“Why should we be rushing in lame-duck session to pull the shroud of secrecy over this issue?”
[INFOGRAPHIC] Ohio’s Secret Executions Bill
Leaders in Ohio’s General Assembly made headlines across the state when they hurriedly introduced House Bill Number 663 during this year’s lame duck session. The proposed law, known as the Secret Executions Bill, will have disastrous consequences for Ohio’s death penalty system. But what exactly will the Secret Executions Bill do? See the infographic below: […]
Op-Ed: Actually, the Founders Rejected the Death Penalty
Washington, Adams and others embraced views of an Italian writer who opposed the punishment…
Pope Francis calls for abolishing death penalty and life imprisonment
“It is impossible to imagine that states today cannot make use of another means than capital punishment to defend peoples’ lives from an unjust aggressor,” the pope said Oct. 23 in a meeting with representatives of the International Association of Penal Law.
Lourdes to host panel on Ohio death penalty
The forum, which will take place at the Franciscan Center, features Derrick Jamison, who spent nearly 20 years on death row before he was exonerated in 2005; Charles Keith, whose brother was on death row before having his sentence commuted and who lost a loved one to a homicide; Terry Collins, former director of the […]
An opportunity to rethink the death penalty (Akron Beacon Journal editorial)
The next execution in Ohio is scheduled for February. That means lawmakers must act soon on the DeWine guidance. Better to see this moment as an opportunity, if not to abandon the death penalty, though that would be wise, then to take up the proposals of the task force and elevate the conduct of capital […]
OTSE plans Bluffton forum Tuesday
The panel will discuss reform recommendations issued by the task force that is reviewing the administration of the death penalty in Ohio. The church is at 101 S. Jackson St., Bluffton.