Pope Francis’ new encyclical, “Fratelli Tutti,” does something that some Catholics believed could not be done: It ratifies a change in church teaching. In this case, on the death penalty. In 2018, Pope Francis ordered a change in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the official compendium of church teaching, when he termed the death penalty “inadmissible.” Today the […]
Michael Hartley
Michael Hartley is the President of Swing State Strategies, where he utilizes his over two decades of political, policy/issue, public relations and corporate experience to work with clients on their public affairs, policy issue and political strategy needs. Most recently, Hartley spent over four years as the Vice President of Government Relations for the Columbus […]
David Stebbins
David Stebbins recently retired after 12 years at the Capital Habeas Unit in Columbus. Stebbins spent 15 years in private practice litigating capital cases, two years at the Capital Case Resource Center of Tennessee, and 10 years as the first Director of Death Penalty Litigation Section of the Ohio Public Defenders Office. Stebbins received his […]