PRESS CONFERENCE 10AM, Friday, October 9 Due to anticipated rain, location changed to Trinity Cathedral 2230 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio Witness to Innocence Gathering Brings Together Death Row Exonerees from across the U.S. to Mark World Day Against the Death Penalty, Call For Abolition & Reforms to Prevent Wrongful Executions At a press conference at […]
Group to Walk from Death House to Capitol Communities Invited for Dialog with Unusual Advocates
Starting at 8:30am on Sunday October 4, death penalty abolitionists from Ohio and beyond will begin a 7 day, 83 mile walk from the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, the prison where Ohio conducts executions, to the Statehouse in Columbus, calling for an end to capital punishment. More than a dozen participants are registered […]
Is the Death Penalty Unconstitutional?
Justice Breyer argued that the death penalty is seriously unreliable and arbitrary in application; he believes the long delays undermine its penological purpose; and he is convinced that we have executed the innocent.