House passes Stand your Ground gun bill. Will Gov. Mike DeWine sign it?
Cincinnati Enquirer
Often called stand your ground laws, the proposed changes would eliminate the duty to retreat before using force in self-defense, defense of another person or defense of certain property.
The proposal would expand the places someone could fire a gun from his home and vehicle to anywhere he has a legal right to be.
The move to eliminate a duty to retreat was added to Senate Bill 175 on the House floor late Thursday and passed in a 52-31 vote, largely along party lines. The change needed Senate approval.
Ohio Governor
Mike DeWine (pictured) told reporters it is “pretty clear” that the state will not execute anyone in 2021.
In a December 8, 2020 year-end interview with Associated Press, DeWine said the state has an “unofficial moratorium” on the death penalty as a result of its inability to procure lethal injection execution drugs and that legislators would have to choose a different method of putting prisoners to death before executions resume in the future. Ohio has not conducted an execution since July 2018, and DeWine said he did not think the legislature would consider switching execution methods to be a priority.
DeWine’s announcement is the latest in a long series of death-penalty related developments in Ohio in 2019 and 2020. In January 2019, federal magistrate Judge Michael Merz, likening the state’s execution process to a combination of waterboarding, suffocation, and exposure to chemical fire, issued an opinion saying that executions under Ohio’s current
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