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 […]
Some Ohio Conservatives Want To End The Death Penalty; Others Defend It
A bipartisan bill introduced in the Ohio General Assembly is the latest effort to abolish capital punishment in Ohio. The state’s chapter of a national group called Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty has applauded that legislation, which is sponsored by some staunch conservatives in the Ohio House and Senate. Read and listen here.
Former governor, attorneys general: Ohio death penalty broken, costly and unjust. It must be repealed.
Forty years ago, several of us supported the crafting of Ohio’s death penalty law, believing it would be a fair and just system. Seeing it in operation has convinced us it is not. We urge the Ohio legislature to repeal what we helped wrought. Read more here.