“As Ohio attorney general, I oversaw 18 executions in accordance with Ohio law. As a state legislator before that, I helped write Ohio’s current death-penalty law. We thought maybe it would be a deterrent. Maybe the death penalty would provide cost savings to Ohio. What I know now is that we were wrong. What I […]
New OTSE Report Details Dwindling Death Penalty: Execution Method Debate Is A Distraction
Ohioans to Stop Executions releases its new report on the status of Ohio’s death penalty this week. The report, A Relic of the Past: Ohio’s Dwindling Death Penalty, details a continuing decline in executions and new death sentences in Ohio while highlighting the disparities between counties which prosecute death cases. The report also catalogs the […]
Dispatch Reporter Has Watched Twenty Men Die
For 17 years, Alan Johnson has reported on Ohio’s executions. It’s a role he’s had to fight for. And one he’d rather not have. via Columbus Monthly