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COLUMBUS — Lawmakers and faith leaders are among Ohioans uniting behind legislation to end capital punishment in the state.On Tuesday, groups express

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...

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

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 death penalty opponent, was joined at a news conference Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, by three Republican sen...