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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A new Ohio law prohibiting the execution of people who had severe...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A new Ohio law prohibiting the execution of people who had severe...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A new Ohio law prohibiting the execution of people who had severe...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A new Ohio law prohibiting the execution of people who had severe mental illness at the time of their crime has begun seeing its first implementations.

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 Legislative Caucus and the Ohio Council of Churches. They also pointed to the March abolition of the d...