NGO report
Broken Promises: How a History of Racial Violence and Bias Shaped Ohio’s Death Penalty
Fair Trial
Innocence
Trend Towards Abolition
In January 2024, Ohio lawmakers announced plans to expand the use of the death penalty to permit executions with nitrogen gas, as Alabama had just done a week earlier. But at the same time the Attorney General and the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association are championing this legislation, a bipartisan group of state legislators has introduced a bill to abolish the death penalty based on “significant concerns on who is sentenced to death and how that sentence is carried out.” The competing narratives make it more important than ever for Ohioans to have a meaningful, accurate understanding of how capital punishment is being used, including whether the state has progressed beyond the mistakes of its past.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Fair Trial / Innocence / Trend Towards Abolition
