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Additional Coverage of Justice Pfeifer's Call for Ohio Repeal

By Steve Hall

"Ohio Supreme Court Justice Paul Pfeifer wants to scrap the death penalty," is the title of Reginald Fields' report for today's Cleveland Plain Dealer. Ohio Supreme Court Justice Paul Pfeifer, who helped write the state's death penalty law, now wants Gov. John Kasich to end capital punishment in Ohio. But a spokesman for the governor said Kasich will continue to support the death penalty. Pfeifer, a Republican, was a state senator and chairman of the Senate's Judiciary Committee in 1981 when the death penalty became the law. But safeguards lawmakers put in place to prevent inequities have not worked, said Pfeifer, citing racial and geographical disparities in how the penalty has been administered. Pfeifer called the use of capital punishment a "lottery...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 20, 2011 (boomark / email).