Former Governor, Attorneys General: Ohio Death Penalty Broken, Costly and Unjust. It Must be Repealed.

Authors

Lee Fisher, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State UniversityFollow
Robert Taft
Jim Petro

Document Type

Op-Ed

Publication Date

3-9-2021

Publication Title

The Columbus Dispatch

Keywords

death penalty, Ohio, violent crime, life imprisonment

Abstract

Forty years ago, several of us supported the crafting of Ohio’s death penalty law, believing it would be a fair and just system.

Seeing it in operation has convinced us it is not.

We urge the Ohio legislature to repeal what we helped wrought.

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Fisher, Lee; Taft, Robert; and Petro, Jim, "Former Governor, Attorneys General: Ohio Death Penalty Broken, Costly and Unjust. It Must be Repealed." (2021). Law Faculty Articles and Essays. 1177.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/fac_articles/1177