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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 created in response to Donald Trump s election in 2016. We realized it would only be a matter of time before he resumed federal executions, he said. And we felt there needed to be an organization to lift up the visibility of the issue when such executions were scheduled. Beyond that, we really realized we needed a movement to make it possible for anybody to have an ....
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Former U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman joins fight to free Ohio inmate convicted of three slayings Updated Mar 04, 2021; Posted Mar 04, 2021 Then-U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman, middle, speaks at a news conference at Euclid City Hall in 2019. He is surrounded by (from left) Cleveland Police Cmdr. Sammy Morris, DEA Resident Agent in Charge Keith Martin and Euclid Police Chief Scott Meyer. Facebook Share CLEVELAND, Ohio Justin Herdman, the former federal prosecutor who made his name fighting violent crime, is now working to free a man convicted in the slayings of three people. Within weeks of leaving the U.S. attorney’s office, Herdman has joined lawyers representing Kevin Keith, who was convicted in 1994 in Bucyrus, about 100 miles southwest of Cleveland. ....
If the Old Dominion State, which The Associated Press reported has executed more people in its history than any other state, can do it, then so can Ohio. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, is expected to sign the repeal, which the state legislature approved Monday, just days after a bipartisan group of Ohio lawmakers announced a push to do the same in the Buckeye State. Once again leading the charge is state Sen. Nickie Antonio, D-Lakewood. “It’s time for the state of Ohio to take the compassionate, pragmatic and prudent step to abolish the death penalty, which has been found to be expensive, impractical, unjust, inhumane and even erroneous,” Antonio said last week. ....