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28 paź 2024 · It is now clear that innocent defendants will be convicted and sentenced to death with some regularity as long as the death penalty exists. It is unlikely that the appeals process—which is mainly focused on legal errors and not on factual determinations—will catch all the mistakes.
- Executed But Possibly Innocent
In 2010, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland commuted the death...
- Description of Innocence Cases
The attorneys spent a total of three hours with Willis, and...
- Innocence by the Numbers
70 Years Later, Florida Posthumously Pardons the “ Groveland...
- Posthumous Pardons
Mr. Limone, Mr. Tameleo, and Mr. Greco were sentenced to...
- Exonerations by Race
70 Years Later, Florida Posthumously Pardons the “ Groveland...
- Partial Innocence
Lamont Hunter Ohio — Conviction: 2007, Released: 2023. On...
- Sentence Commuted
Kevin Keith Ohio Conviction 1995, Commuted to Life: 2010....
- Additional Resources
Gross SR et al. “ Rate of false conviction of criminal...
- Executed But Possibly Innocent
Since 1976, nine men have been exonerated from Ohio’s death row. The number of exonerations is based on a rigorous three-prong test adopted by the nation’s leading source for information on the death penalty, the Death Penalty Information Center.
10 paź 2024 · Ohio lawmakers have not passed a law to stop using the death penalty, and instead want to start using the torturous method of nitrogen hypoxia, even though 56% of Ohioans support replacing the death penalty with a sentence of life without parole.
5 gru 2023 · Jackson—who asserts his innocence and points to another man as the killer—has received six reprieves to date, two under Kasich and four under DeWine. His current execution date is Dec. 10, 2025, although it’s almost certain that will be revoked and extended through another reprieve.
16 gru 2022 · Ohio, a state without a formal moratorium, re-elected Governor Mike DeWine, who has issued a series of reprieves to death row prisoners based on obstacles to the state’s provision of execution drugs.
1 kwi 2021 · (COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost today issued the 2020 Capital Crimes Report, an annual accounting and procedural history of each case that has resulted in a death sentence in Ohio since 1981, the year the state’s current death penalty law was enacted.
31 gru 1993 · A recent national poll found that the number one issue raising doubts among voters regarding the death penalty is the danger of a mistaken execution. [1] Fifty-eight percent of voters are disturbed that the death penalty might allow an innocent person to be executed.
