“History and research tell us that capital punishment is enormously expensive and wasteful, that capital punishment does not reduce or deter violent crime, that capital punishment is arbitrarily applied, and that there is always the possibility of executing an innocent person who has been wrongfully convicted.”
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Anti-Death Penalty Group Plans Central Ohio Forum
Ohioans to Stop Executions is planning evening events Tuesday in Columbus, Wednesday in Wilmington and Thursday in Springfield…
Wilmington: Panel to discuss death penalty on Oct. 1
In addition to former ODRC director Terry Collins, other panelists are death row exoneree Joe D’Ambrosio, Office of the Ohio Public Defender Director Tim Young, and Charles Keith, who has both lost a loved one to murder and whose brother was on death row before then-Gov. Ted Strickland commuted the sentence.