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Ohio News Coverage of the DPIC Report

By Steve Hall

Capital punishment issues were a major news topic in Ohio this year with the botched execution attempt of Romell Brown and the first use of a single-drug lethal injection.  Ohio newspapers, as with Texas papers, have given the DPIC report serious attention.  Both the Columbus Dispatch and Middletown Journal have major articles with charts and graphs. Alan Johnson writes, "U.S. death sentences fall again; Ohio has 1," for the Columbus Dispatch.For the seventh straight year, the number of new death sentences in the U.S. dropped in 2009, reaching the lowest point since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, according to a national report. Just one Ohioan, Hersie Wesson, 52, of Summit County, was sentenced to death this year...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 18, 2009 (boomark / email).