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The time is finally ripe to abolish the death penalty in Ohio Editorial Board, cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer, cleveland.com © Gus Chan, The Plain Dealer/cleveland.com/TNS Serial killer Anthony Sowell, who died of natural causes Feb 8, never made it to an execution date. But his publicly funded defense against the death penalty cost taxpayers more than any case in Cuyahoga County history. This editorial board has long opposed the death penalty. That position only intensified when, after the death penalty was restored in Ohio in 1981, it was used not for the worst of 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...

Three executions are scheduled in Ohio this year beginning in August, though the likelihood of those being carried out is low.

Ohio inmate who survived execution attempt for killing 14-year-old girl in Cleveland dies of coronavirus John Caniglia, cleveland.com CLEVELAND, Ohio – After 36 years of pain, Bessye Middleton said she felt a bit of relief Wednesday: She and her family will no longer have to face the endless appeals involving Ohio’s death penalty. Middleton learned that Romell Broom, the man convicted of killing her 14-year-old daughter, Tryna, in September 1984 in Cleveland, had died Monday because of the coronavirus. He is the second death-row inmate in Ohio to succumb to the virus. Jame...

Ohio lawmakers pass legislation banning executions of the seriously mentally ill Updated Dec 17, 2020; Posted Dec 17, 2020 In this Nov. 2005 file photo, Larry Greene, public information director of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, demonstrates how a curtain is pulled between the death chamber and witness room at the prison in Lucasville, Ohio. The Ohio General Assembly has passed legislation banning executions of murderers with serious mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)AP Facebook Share COLUMBUS, Ohio—The Ohio General Assembly ha...