FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 9, 2016 Contact: Amanda Hoyt, 614-483-3168, [email protected] Faith Organizations Call on Governor to Show Grace and Grant Clemency Columbus, OH – On Friday, December 9th, the Ohio Parole Board recommended that death row inmate Ronald Phillips be denied clemency. The Ohio Council of Churches and Faith in Public Life are calling […]
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New OTSE Report Details Dwindling Death Penalty: Execution Method Debate Is A Distraction
Ohioans to Stop Executions releases its new report on the status of Ohio’s death penalty this week. The report, A Relic of the Past: Ohio’s Dwindling Death Penalty, details a continuing decline in executions and new death sentences in Ohio while highlighting the disparities between counties which prosecute death cases. The report also catalogs the […]
Homicide Survivors Ignored in Study of Victims Needs
Two leading victims rights advocates questioned the sincerity of the legislatively mandated Joint Committee on Victim’s Services at a meeting of the committee this afternoon at the Statehouse. “I am deeply concerned that there will not be a comprehensive review of the experiences of homicide survivors in Ohio,” said Melinda Elkins Dawson, whose mother was murdered […]