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 […]
Sample phone scripts
Sample phone scripts for calling Senators on Senate Bill 103 “Hi, my name is ___ and I’m a constituent of Senator ___. I’m calling because I’m opposed to the death penalty and I wanted to express my support for Senate Bill 103. Ohio has sent 11 innocent people to death row. For every five people […]
Jim and Nancy Petro
Jim Petro is a life-long Ohio civil servant: city councilman, county commissioner, state legislator, state Auditor, state Attorney General, and Chancellor of the Board of Regents. He served on the House Judiciary Subcommittee that crafted our death penalty statute in 1981. He advocated for passage of the bill then. Later, as Attorney General from 2003 […]