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Murder Victim’s Husband Says Witnessing Execution Of Her Killer Changed His Mind
“I just wish I had the foresight to realize that [the execution] wasn’t going to solve my problem,” Byrne said.
Conservative Voices: The withering of the death penalty (George Will)
…the power to inflict death cloaks government with a majesty and pretense of infallibility discordant with conservatism.
Ricky Jackson, Exonerated After 39 Years in Prison, Sues Cleveland Police
Ricky Jackson, in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday, names the city and at least eight former officers or their estates for his arrest and incarceration following a 1975 Cleveland-area slaying.
Mentally ill murderers would avoid death penalty under new Ohio Senate bill
Under Senate Bill 162, the death penalty could not be imposed on a murderer with an illness such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder that “significantly impaired” his or her ability to exercise rational judgment, follow the law, or appreciate the nature of their crime.
If Lady Justice were blind: For a racial justice act in Ohio
Whether you support the death penalty or not, all of us can and should agree that life should be treated equally, without regard to race.
Lawmakers want to exclude mentally ill from death penalty
“The death penalty is not the answer to the problem of violence committed by persons with severe mental disorders.”
The death penalty is a gamble that we are not willing to take
The surest and simplest way to make sure that the human error involved in every component of the death penalty process is avoided is simply to end it.
‘It’s problematic’: inventor of US lethal injection reveals death penalty doubts
Dr Jay Chapman sought to develop a more humane method of execution but miscarriages of justice leave him ambivalent about capital punishment