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More on the Ohio Review Proposal

By Steve Hall

"Should all death row inmates be there?" is the title of Sharon Coolidge's report in the Cincinnati Enquirer.Supreme Court Justice Paul E. Pfeifer helped write Ohio's death penalty law in 1981, lifting the moratorium on state-sanctioned killing.Now, with 29 years perspective and 160 killers sitting on Ohio's death row, Pfeifer is asking: should everyone on death row be on death row?Pfeifer, a Republican running for re-election unopposed, is calling for the creation of a commission to review all death row cases.The commission would determine whether anyone should be spared death and given a life sentence with no chance for parole.It also would make clemency recommendations to the governor, the only person who can grant clemency...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 01, 2010 (boomark / email).