COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Gov. John Kasich on Friday granted an eight-month reprieve to a condemned killer following last month’s execution of an inmate who repeatedly gasped in the state’s longest lethal-injection procedure…
Derrick Jamison: Exonerated from Ohio’s Death Row, Now on a Mission to Save Lives
CINCINNATI — A Cincinnati man imprisoned for two decades and released just one day before his scheduled execution has a new mission in life. Derrick Jamison was exonerated after it was discovered he did not commit the crime he was sentenced to death for…
Dennis McGuire Execution Another Sign of a Broken System
There is no question that the death penalty is a broken system. The problems with Ohio’s death penalty aren’t abstract problems in a report– they are embodied in the prison staff who carried out the suffocation execution of Dennis McGuire, the priest who witnessed it, the family who must endure another media storm. They are […]