As a legislator, I voted in favor of reinstating Ohio’s death penalty law in 1981. As attorney general, I oversaw 18 executions in accordance with Ohio law, but increasingly I struggled with my views on the death penalty. It’s one thing to consider the law in the abstract; it is much different and more difficult […]
OTSE Press Release – Former Ohio AG Jim Petro and conservative experts to discuss Death Penalty reforms “we can agree on”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jon Benedict media@otse.org Ph: 216.409.6160 Cincinnati, OH – Former Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro and his wife Nancy Petro, co-authors of False Justice: Eight Myths that Convict the Innocent, will speak with other well-known Conservatives at an upcoming forum on proposed reforms to Ohio’s death penalty laws. The forum will take place at […]
Gov. Kasich should move to abolish executions, not schedule them anew: editorial
It’s time Ohio joined 18 other states and Washington, D.C., which have all abolished the death penalty – a practice this editorial board believes is unjust, immoral and too costly. At the very least, Kasich should wait for Frost’s ruling before queuing up inmates again for execution.