Anti-capital punishment activists delivered more than 27 thousand petitions to Kasich’s office, asking him to commute the death sentence of Phillips and 26 others who are set to be executed in the next three years.
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Group asks Governor Kasich to stop scheduled executions
Faith leaders, a former Ohio prison warden and a man sentenced to death row and others, delivered petitions with 27,000 signatures to Governor John Kasich’s Office urging him to stop scheduled executions.
Ohio death penalty opponents urge Gov. John Kasich to postpone executions
Ohioans to Stop Executions delivered 27,503 signatures to Kasich’s office, urging the Republican governor to postpone the state’s 27 scheduled executions. The petition calls for better safeguards to prevent innocent people from being sentenced to death, including 2014 recommendations from the Ohio Supreme Court’s death penalty task force.