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Sixth Circuit Decision Allows Ohio to Resume Executions

By / January 10, 2022

On Wednesday, the en banc Sixth Circuit ruled 8-6 that Ohio may resume lethal injections using a three drug mixture that includes the controversial sedative midazolam. The ruling reverses the injunction issued in January, and upheld in April.  The last execution in Ohio was in 2014, when Dennis McGuire struggled for over 20 minutes before …

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Exonerated Ohio men push to eliminate or reform death penalty

By / June 1, 2022

The Columbus Dispatch reports that six men who were wrongfully sentenced to death in Ohio are now speaking out against the death penalty. At a Statehouse news conference this week, Kwame Ajamu, Joe D’Ambrosio, Ricky Jackson, Derrick Jamison, Dale Johnston and Wiley Bridgeman spoke out urging elimination or reform of the death penalty in Ohio. Each …

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