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Toledo Blade Editorializes Against Secret Executions Bill: “Dying to know”
This bill is not about the merits of capital punishment — it’s about holding government accountable…
NPR Morning Edition: Ohio Bill Would Shield Source Of Lethal Injection Drugs
“These are incredibly heinous crimes, I’m not arguing about that. But our justice system and our society has to hold itself out better than the people who commit those heinous crimes.”
National journalism group opposes Ohio lethal injection secrecy bill
“When it comes to carrying out a death sentence, more transparency and more reporting should be required, not less,” Neuts said.
Lawmakers want to shroud Ohio’s executions in secrecy
The most fundamental right of all is the right to life. There must be reasonable outside scrutiny and accountability when the government itself is putting people to death.
Editor of Columbus Dispatch: Government secrecy keeps public in the dark
“Why should we be rushing in lame-duck session to pull the shroud of secrecy over this issue?”
[INFOGRAPHIC] Ohio’s Secret Executions Bill
Leaders in Ohio’s General Assembly made headlines across the state when they hurriedly introduced House Bill Number 663 during this year’s lame duck session. The proposed law, known as the Secret Executions Bill, will have disastrous consequences for Ohio’s death penalty system. But what exactly will the Secret Executions Bill do? See the infographic below: […]
Op-Ed: Actually, the Founders Rejected the Death Penalty
Washington, Adams and others embraced views of an Italian writer who opposed the punishment…
Pope Francis calls for abolishing death penalty and life imprisonment
“It is impossible to imagine that states today cannot make use of another means than capital punishment to defend peoples’ lives from an unjust aggressor,” the pope said Oct. 23 in a meeting with representatives of the International Association of Penal Law.