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Death penalty changes debated in Springfield
While the recommendations wouldn’t eliminate the death penalty in Ohio, the panelists talked about ways the reforms could keep innocent people off death row. Springfield was one of several Ohio stops on the forum tour…
Ohio prosecutors want death penalty drug info shielded
Shielding information about drugs would set a dangerous precedent, according to the Ohio chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. “The public, the courts and condemned inmates have to feel confident knowing what is used in executions so that they will happen in a humane way,” said ACLU spokesman Mike Brickner…
Fairness of death penalty challenged
Citing data, an Ohio Supreme Court execution task force member challenged the fundamental fairness of the way the death penalty in Ohio is applied…
Sen. Edna Brown: Don’t fix capital punishment, end it.
“History and research tell us that capital punishment is enormously expensive and wasteful, that capital punishment does not reduce or deter violent crime, that capital punishment is arbitrarily applied, and that there is always the possibility of executing an innocent person who has been wrongfully convicted.”
Anti-Death Penalty Group Plans Central Ohio Forum
Ohioans to Stop Executions is planning evening events Tuesday in Columbus, Wednesday in Wilmington and Thursday in Springfield…
Wilmington: Panel to discuss death penalty on Oct. 1
In addition to former ODRC director Terry Collins, other panelists are death row exoneree Joe D’Ambrosio, Office of the Ohio Public Defender Director Tim Young, and Charles Keith, who has both lost a loved one to murder and whose brother was on death row before then-Gov. Ted Strickland commuted the sentence.
Change of Heart: Conservative former justice officials seek to reform Ohio’s death penalty
“We will, and we have in the past, executed innocent people,” Petro says. “That’s an overwhelming thought, but I know it to be a fact.”
Increasingly, Ohio juries choosing life in prison instead of death
A poll conducted by Quinnipiac University in May found Ohio voters favor the death penalty 69 percent to 25 percent for people convicted of murder. But when offered a choice of death or life in prison without parole, 43 percent said they favor the death penalty and 40 percent said they favor life in prison […]