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Pastor Carl Ruby: Be better, Ohio. Halt executions
Many conservatives of faith like me are deeply concerned about Ohio’s plan to restart executions later this month. We question the fairness, accuracy and cost of our state’s death penalty — a problematic government policy that metes out life and death. How can we trust our government to get it right every single time when the facts show otherwise?
Kasich to skip opening state fair to monitor execution of child killer
Gov. John Kasich will skip the opening of the Ohio State Fair on Wednesday so that he can monitor activities at the Death House as the state carries out the first execution in more than three years, his spokesman said.
Death-Penalty Opponents Focus on the Execution Next Week of Akron’s Ronald Phillips
Ohio is preparing to carry out its first execution in three years later this month. Ronald Phillips of Akron was convicted of raping and killing his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter in 1993 and is scheduled to receive a lethal injection next Wednesday (July 26th). Statehouse correspondent Jo Ingles reports that death penalty opponents are making a last-minute appeal to Gov. John Kasich to spare Phillips and others.
Death Penalty Opponents Appeal To Governor To Stop Upcoming Executions
Anti-capital punishment activists delivered more than 27 thousand petitions to Kasich’s office, asking him to commute the death sentence of Phillips and 26 others who are set to be executed in the next three years.
Group asks Governor Kasich to stop scheduled executions
Faith leaders, a former Ohio prison warden and a man sentenced to death row and others, delivered petitions with 27,000 signatures to Governor John Kasich’s Office urging him to stop scheduled executions.
Ohio death penalty opponents urge Gov. John Kasich to postpone executions
Ohioans to Stop Executions delivered 27,503 signatures to Kasich’s office, urging the Republican governor to postpone the state’s 27 scheduled executions. The petition calls for better safeguards to prevent innocent people from being sentenced to death, including 2014 recommendations from the Ohio Supreme Court’s death penalty task force.
Faith leaders, others urge Kasich to halt resumption of Ohio executions
With the resumption of executions in Ohio a week away, a coalition of clergy, former corrections officials, death row exonerees and crime victims Wednesday called on Gov. John Kasich to block the lethal injection of child killer Ronald Phillips.
Gov. John Kasich urged to block Ohio’s plan to resume executions
Representatives of the faith community, correctional officers, victims’ families, and exonerated death row inmates joined forces Tuesday to urge Gov. John Kasich to block Ohio’s plan to resume carrying out executions next week.