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Groups urge Ohio Supreme Court to uphold firing of Creationist science teacher

Secular and science groups have urged the Ohio Supreme Court to rule against John Freshwater, an eighth-grade science teacher who was fired for teaching creationism instead of evolution in class. “Freshwater’s pedagogy serves no legitimate educational purpose in a public school science class, is scientifically unsound, and serves only impermissibly…

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…