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Ohio's death row getting smaller (though new AG still laments pace of appeals)

By Douglas A. Berman

Ohio law requires the state Attorney General to produce an annual report that details the status of all individuals sentenced to death in the state.  As detailed in this official press release, the 2008 report was released today and can be accessed here.  Helpfully, this local article provides some of the intriguing data highlights from the nearly 300-page report: Ohio's Death Row, once bulging with more than 200 condemned killers, is shrinking due to both executions and successful legal appeals.  The annual Capital Crimes Report released today by Attorney General Richard Cordray showed that 15 people got off Death Row last year.  Only two of them, Richard Wade Cooey II and Gregory Bryant-Bey, were executed. A third, James Taylor, died of natural causes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 01, 2009 (boomark / email).