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 […]
Opinion: Repeal death penalty and eliminate racial bias
As a Black woman who was wrongfully convicted of murder and served over 20 years in Ohio prisons for a crime I didn’t commit, I am all too aware of racial bias in our justice system. In a moment when the nation is grappling with how to best address systemic racism and implement meaningful criminal […]
Gasping For Air: Autopsies Reveal Troubling Effects Of Lethal Injection
Dr. Joel Zivot stared at the autopsy reports. The language was dry and clinical, in stark contrast to the weight of what they contained — detailed, graphic accounts of the bodies of inmates executed by lethal injection in Georgia. It was 2016, and the autopsy reports had been given to him by lawyers representing inmates […]