“We will, and we have in the past, executed innocent people,” Petro says. “That’s an overwhelming thought, but I know it to be a fact.”
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Increasingly, Ohio juries choosing life in prison instead of death
A poll conducted by Quinnipiac University in May found Ohio voters favor the death penalty 69 percent to 25 percent for people convicted of murder. But when offered a choice of death or life in prison without parole, 43 percent said they favor the death penalty and 40 percent said they favor life in prison […]
Jim Petro: Ohio shouldn’t risk executing innocent
As a legislator, I voted in favor of reinstating Ohio’s death penalty law in 1981. As attorney general, I oversaw 18 executions in accordance with Ohio law, but increasingly I struggled with my views on the death penalty. It’s one thing to consider the law in the abstract; it is much different and more difficult […]