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Hannah Kubbins / June 11, 2021

By ending the death penalty, we can divert resources where they’re really needed

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 same time period. How is this humanly possible?

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