COLUMBUS, Ohio — A group of conservative lawmakers and stakeholders took to the podium on Tuesday with a common plea — stop executions in our state.
- Their reasons for wanting the death penalty out of Ohio range from theological, to moral, to financial
- It costs Ohio an estimated $1 million to try a death penalty case
- One of the more impassioned testimonies came from the son of a victim who had to painfully live through the trial of his father’s murderer