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Ohioans to Stop Executions / September 4, 2019

Column: Death penalty does more harm than good for victim’s son

I lost my father two years ago to a brutal and senseless murder. The man who took his life, Thomas Knuff, was recently sentenced to death. Knuff took my dad from me and robbed the two of us of invaluable time together. It’s impossible to describe the depths of my pain or how to cope with what’s happened to me, but I know that Knuff’s death sentence will not provide healing to me. As someone with a very close connection to the death penalty, I appreciate Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder’s recent comments about his waning support of the death penalty.

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