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Faith leaders are urging lawmakers to consider two bills to repeal the death penalty in Ohio, a state that used to be a leader in capital punishment but has now gone more than three years without an execution under Republican Gov. Mike DeWine. Statehouse correspondent Karen Kasler reports.
DeWine has said the state can t get the lethal injection drugs it needs, so the legislature needs to decide what to do.
That’s given advocates against capital punishment renewed hope that they could get a repeal passed and signed.
Brandi Slaughter is the Policy Director at the Ohio Council of Churches and the Deputy Director at Death Penalty Action, and has been meeting with lawmakers.