A group of Ohio lawmakers is again trying to kill the death penalty. As she has since 2011, Sen. Nickie Antonio, D-Lakewood, on Tuesday announced that she and some colleagues were introducing legislation abolishing it.
The following articlewas originally published in the Ohio Capital Journal and published on News5Cleveland.com under a content-sharing agreement.It might seem like a shot in the dark. But amid exonerations and shifting sentiment about the ultimate punishment, Antonio seemed to believe that this year’s version has a better shot than ever.
Ohio has stayed all executions since Mike DeWine, a Republican, became governor in January 2019. A devout Catholic, DeWine first cited a federal judge’s fears that Ohio’s death protocol amounted to torture to justify delays. Then he cited the difficulty getting execution drugs from manufacturers who are adamantly opposed to using what’s made to be medicine to instead kill people.
Among other problems that have been cited are gaping racial disparities in the way the penalty is applied. Craig said that over half of the 138 people on Ohio’s death row are Black, which is wildly out of proportion for a group that makes up just 13% of the state’s population. In addition, the National Research Council in 2012 issued a report saying there weren’t data to show what effect executions had on murder rates, much less allow comparisons to life without parole. That jibes with other reports saying researchers haven’t established that the death penalty to deters crime.
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