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Death Penalty Documentary Makes its Ohio Debut
A new documentary about the death penalty is coming to Ohio ahead of the state’s next scheduled execution on Feb. 13. The advocacy group Ohioans to Stop Executions is sponsoring screenings throughout the state.
Editorial: Release information on execution drugs
All Ohioans deserve to know exactly how executions are carried out. And as long as lawmakers see fit to continue capital punishment, they should do it in a way that doesn’t require hiding the truth.
Editorial: Ohio lawmakers should keep the seriously mentally ill off Death Row
The Ohio General Assembly should pass a bipartisan bill forbidding Ohio to give a death sentence to someone convicted of aggravated murder – but also found to have a serious mental illness. He or she would instead be sentenced to life imprisonment, which is far more reasonable and compassionate.
Court to review lethal drug records Ohio wants to shield
Justices on the Ohio Supreme Court will privately review records about lethal drugs the state prison system wants shielded from public view as part of an open records dispute. At issue is a law firm’s request for multiple records about Ohio’s lethal injection drugs and whether a secrecy law prohibits their release.
Death penalty abolishment in front of Ohio lawmakers, again
For the fourth time in a row, State Representative Nickie Antonio from Cuyahoga County has introduced legislation at the Statehouse that would abolish the death penalty. Her three previous attempts have been relatively fruitless in starting a debate about the issue at the Statehouse.
Fentanyl for executions? Two states are looking to try it
Fentanyl drove another record year of overdose deaths in Ohio. Two states want to put the drug’s potency to another use: capital punishment.
A slow death for capital punishment
The absurdity of the death penalty has been on display across the country this month. For the second time in recent years, a condemned killer emerged alive from the Ohio death house, reported the Columbus Dispatch.
Kasich says no execution changes needed in Ohio
A day after another failed execution in Ohio, Gov. John Kasich’s office says the state’s capital punishment protocol doesn’t need to change.