Ohio’s death-penalty system is paralyzed, and state leaders are in no hurry to address it
Updated 6:00 AM;
Today 6:00 AM
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.AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio Ohio’s death-penalty system is broken, immobilized by state officials’ years-long fruitless struggle to find lethal-injection drugs.
Yet, the state’s governor and lawmakers have so far taken no meaningful steps toward permanently addressing the major problems with the state’s death penalty. Instead, the leaders appear to be content to have capital punishment remain in a sort of legal purgatory, leaving more than 130 Death Row inmates, as well as their victims’ loved ones, in limbo about what the future will hold for Ohio’s death penalty.
Police obstruction, liquor license extensions, fertility fraud among issues raised in new Ohio House bills
Updated Feb 08, 2021;
Posted Feb 08, 2021
The first 67 bills of the new Ohio House session include renewed attempts to pass school-funding reform, repeal the scandal-ridden House Bill 6, and improve broadband internet access. They also include measures to extend liquor license expiration dates, toughen penalties for using taunts or thrown objects to distract police, and make it illegal for fertility doctors to use their own sperm to impregnate unwitting patients. (David Petkiewicz, cleveland.com)
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COLUMBUS, Ohio Broadening the definition of obstructing justice, delaying expiration dates of liquor licenses, and making “fertility fraud” a felony are just some of what’s being sought in a slew of bills introduced in the Ohio House on Friday.