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By Steve Hall

Today's News-Herald of Northern Ohio carries the editorial, "Details needed for death row review."If one Ohio Supreme Court justice has his way, the line waiting on death row may get a little shorter.Justice Paul Pfeifer, who played a major role in resurrecting Ohio?s death penalty law nearly 30 years ago, said the state has a backlog of old cases. Many of those would not have resulted in a death sentence had they been tried under current law, which gives juries the option of imposing a life sentence without the possibility of parole, he said.Ohio has 161 inmates on death row and is on pace to execute a state record 11 inmates this year. Five have already been executed this year, and thus far two are scheduled for 2011...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 21, 2010 (boomark / email).