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Ohio resumes lethal injections despite exonerations and botched procedures
The state of Ohio is set to reclaim its position as one of the most avid practitioners of the death sentence in America after it carried out its first execution in six months following the lifting of a court-imposed moratorium. In recent years Ohio has had the dubious distinction of…
Co-author of Ohio death penalty says law ‘should be repealed’
An Ohio Supreme Court justice is calling on lawmakers to repeal the state’s death penalty law — even though he helped write it. Testifying before an Ohio House of Representatives committee hearing, Justice Paul Pfeifer insisted that the state was “no longer well-served by our death penalty statute and it…
Oregon becomes latest state to halt executions
LOS ANGELES — The governor of Oregon announced a halt to executions in the northwestern US state, the latest to drop capital punishment as a penal option. Governor John Kitzhaber issued a temporary reprieve for a prisoner due to die next month, and said he would allow no more executions…
Failure to plead guilty not grounds for death sentence: Court
An appeals court overturned Wednesday the death sentence of the convicted killer of two undercover New York police officers, saying prosecutors unfairly tried to influence the jury in the case. The federal Court of Appeals in New York upheld Ronell Wilson’s conviction for the 2003 murders but said the death…
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