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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 worst, but for marginalized Ohioans, those of color, of low-income, those with mental deficiencies, whose who couldn’t afford the best of the best defense counsel.

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