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Faith Leaders Urge Ohio Lawmakers To Repeal Death Penalty


Associated Press
In this November 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.
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 Gov. Mike DeWine.
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. ....

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Black faith leaders, lawmakers, push to end death penalty - Pomeroy Daily Sentinel


Black faith leaders, lawmakers, push to end death penalty
By Andrew Welsh-Huggins - Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) A coalition of Black ministers, lawmakers and national activists announced a new effort Tuesday to abolish the death penalty in Ohio, citing growing bipartisan opposition and the country’s recent reckoning over racial injustice.
The death penalty is a modern cousin to lynching, with people of color disproportionately sentenced to death, said members of the Ohio Black Legislative Caucus and the Ohio Council of Churches. They also pointed to the March abolition of the death penalty in Virginia, the first southern state to do so. ....

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