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In January, Charles Keith became a "professional abolitionist" against the death penalty, taking a job as a community liaison with the Death Penalty Action Network. The goal of the advocacy group started by Abraham Bonowitz and Scott Langley is to eliminate that form of punishment. The group argues the death penalty should be eliminated because too many innocent people have been wrongfully executed and that poor Black men in particular have been disproportionately penalized. About the Death Penalty Action Newtwork Bonowitz, a death penalty abolitionist since 1996, said the network was...

Replies(9) A bipartisan coalition is again pushing for the abolition of the Ohio death penalty. (Photo by Mike Simons/Getty Images) COLUMBUS, OH — Another bipartisan effort to repeal the death penalty has been launched in Ohio. State senators Nickie Antonio, Steve Huffman, Adam Miller, Jean Schmidt, Sandra Williams and others announced their legislative push to remove Ohio's death penalty during a news conference this week. "It is time for the State of Ohio to take the compassionate, pragmatic, and economically prudent step to abolish the death penalty," Antonio said. The Lakewood-based ...

Opinion: Ohio should be the 24th state to abolish death penalty Jocelyn Rosnick Should Ohio be the next state to cut the cord? All signs point to yes. For all intents and purposes, Ohio is functioning with an unofficial moratorium on executions — it has not carried out an execution since July 2018. In fact, Gov. Mike DeWine entered his first term with seven scheduled executions, and he issued a reprieve for all of them. While the ACLU of Ohio and Ohioans to Stop Executions applauds these actions, it is time to exit the realm of reprieve and call it quits for good. The temporary moratori...

State Sen. Nickie J. Antonio will introduce the bipartisan legislation in the Ohio Senate and House in the coming weeks.

Fraud may be rampant among Ohio pandemic unemployment claims: Capitol Letter Updated Jan 22, 2021; Posted Jan 22, 2021 The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services' homepage has a place for people to report fraudulent unemployment claims under their names. (Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.) Facebook Share Rotunda Rumblings False claims: More than half of Ohio’s 1.4 million Pandemic Unemployment Assistance claims (which total $7.8 billion in payments) have been flagged for fraud, Lt. Gov. Jon Husted said Thursday. As Jeremy Pelzer explains, one likely reason is that, until rec...