Terry traveled to Delaware in 2015 to testify before the Delaware House Judiciary Committee about how the death penalty has nothing to do with keeping prisons safe. Ohioans to Stop Executions mourns the passing of our friend and colleague, Terry Collins, who died unexpectedly on March 17, 2016. The Columbus Dispatch broke the news with […]
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Ohioans to Stop Executions Launches Petition to Governor Kasich
In the wake of the Ohio Supreme Court ruling today allowing a second attempt at executing a man who spent two hours enduring at least 18 needle jabs in a botched 2009 execution attempt, Ohioans to Stop Executions launched a petition calling on Governor Kasich to show mercy to Romell Broom by commuting his death […]
STATEMENT from Ohioans to Stop Executions Executive Director Kevin Werner regarding today’s ruling by the Ohio Supreme Court in the Romell Broom case.
Today’s ruling by the Ohio Supreme Court permitting another attempt to execute Romell Broom is extremely alarming. The state of Ohio still cannot explain what went so terribly wrong during the first botched execution attempt; there’s no reason to think they won’t make the same mistakes again. The very idea that the execution was never […]