It’s time to end the death penalty in Ohio, and particularly in Cuyahoga County. According to a recent study, Cuyahoga County had the nation’s 133rd highest homicide rate from 1972 to 2019. Yet as noted in the May 5 Plain Dealer, astonishingly, we ranked 12th in the nation in sentencing people to death during that […]
Allison Cohen, Executive Director
Allison was born and raised in rural Southwest Ohio. She attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio where she received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Creative Writing with a focus in fiction. In 2012, she moved to Cincinnati and became the first director of Communications and Development for Ohioans to Stop Executions. Though she explored […]
Jonathan Mann, Vice Chair
After Thomas Knuff was arrested and charged for his father’s murder in 2017, Jonathan was at a moral crossroads. As he began to learn more about the death penalty, he realized it wasn’t as simple, efficient or cost-effective as he believed. He struggled with acceptance of what he began to understand while letting go of pain […]