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COLUMBUS — A coalition of Black ministers, lawmakers and national activists announced a new effort Tuesday to abolish the death penalty in Ohio, citi

Black faith leaders, lawmakers, push to end death penalty By Andrew Welsh-Huggins - Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A coalition of Black ministers, lawmakers and national activists announced a new effort Tuesday to abolish the death penalty in Ohio, citing growing bipartisan opposition and the country’s recent reckoning over racial injustice. The death penalty is a modern cousin to lynching, with people of color disproportionately sentenced to death, said members of the Ohio Black Le...

The Greatest Motivational Speech Ever, by Leonidas, King of Sparta Leonidas, the King of Sparta. Credit: Andy Hay, CC BY 2.0/ flickr The year was 480 BC when King Leonidas of Sparta, left with only a few dozen fighters from the original 300 at Thermopylae, gave a speech whose motivational power has resonated over the millennia. The truth is that we do not know exactly what Leonidas told his troops. None survived the last day to tell the tale — other than a messenger who was sent back to Spart...

Black faith leaders, lawmakers, push to end death penalty ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2015, file photo, Ohio state Rep. Nickie Antonio, a Democrat from Lakewood in suburban Cleveland, demonstrates tamper-resistant pain pills during a news conference in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio death penalty opponents are announcing a new effort to end capital punishment that includes several GOP supporters of a ban. Antonio, a longtime deat...

Prosecutors to Pursue Death Penalty for Ohio Woman Charged in 4-Year-Old Daughter’s Death An Ohio mother who was charged with murder in the death of her young daughter will be eligible for the death penalty after she had her charges upgraded to capital murder, according to court documents. Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph T. Deters announced the death penalty-eligible indictment against 25-year-old Tianna Robinson in a statement on Monday. Robinson has been accused of severely abusing her 4...

Horizon Therapeutics plc Selects AGC Biologics to Further Supply KRYSTEXXA® (pegloticase injection) at AGC’s Copenhagen Facility Seattle, April 30, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AGC Biologics, a leading global Biopharmaceutical Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO), announced the expansion of their partnership with Horizon Therapeutics plc (Nasdaq: HZNP), to include the manufacturing of KRYSTEXXA® (pegloticase injection) – a biologic medicine for treatment of chronic gout...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday delayed the three remaining executions that were scheduled for this year. The Republican governor is making good on his promise of no executions in 2021. He cited no source for lethal injection drugs and lack of movement by lawmakers in making a switch in execution method a priority. In a December interview with The Associated Press, DeWine said lethal injection is no longer an option for Ohio executions, and lawmakers must choose a differen...

The statement was the first time the lifelong conservative and pro-life lawmaker made a definitive stance on the death penalty in Ohio. DeWine said in the interview that he still supports capital punishment as state law. But he has come to question its value since the days he helped write the state’s current law - enacted in 1981 - because of the long delays between crime and punishment. The state’s last execution was July 18, 2018, when Ohio put to death Robert Van Hook for killing David ...

If the Old Dominion State, which The Associated Press reported has executed more people in its history than any other state, can do it, then so can Ohio. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, is expected to sign the repeal, which the state legislature approved Monday, just days after a bipartisan group of Ohio lawmakers announced a push to do the same in the Buckeye State. Once again leading the charge is state Sen. Nickie Antonio, D-Lakewood. “It’s time for the state of Ohio to take the...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Capital punishment would be banned in Ohio under upcoming legislation announced Thursday with both Democratic and Republican support, the latest bipartisan effort to end...