Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signs water-quality legislation, four other bills
Updated Jan 06, 2021;
Posted Jan 06, 2021
Gov. Mike DeWine on Wednesday signed five bills, including a measure to ramp up state oversight over water quality. (Zoom)
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COLUMBUS, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed legislation Wednesday that increases state oversight over water quality around Ohio and seeks to help farmers reduce phosphorus runoff that fuels toxic algal blooms in Lake Erie.
DeWine, a Greene County Republican, also signed four other bills into law regarding protecting low-income health providers from predation, strengthening animal abuse reporting requirements, permitting food allergy training for educators, and creating a procedure to ceremonially retire Ohio’s state flag.
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Ohio lawmakers pass legislation banning executions of the seriously mentally ill
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
Posted Dec 17, 2020
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. The Ohio General Assembly has passed legislation banning executions of murderers with serious mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio The Ohio General Assembly has given final approval to legislation prohibiting executions of killers who have a “serious mental illness” such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
Ohio’s next three scheduled executions postponed by Gov. Mike DeWine
Updated Dec 18, 2020;
Posted Dec 18, 2020
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 Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday postponed Ohio’s next three scheduled executions, in keeping with his vow to put capital punishment on hold unless lawmakers choose an alternative method to lethal injection.
It’s the 10th time this year that DeWine, a Greene County Republican, has pushed back execution dates due to state’s ongoing problems getting pharmaceutical companies to sell it lethal-injection drugs.