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Editorial Roundup

By Steve Hall

"Execution pace shouldn't be rising," is the title of an editorial in today Middletown Journal in Ohio.There?s something decidedly odd about Ohio?s death penalty situation. Having executed five people this year, with another six scheduled, and with two more scheduled for next year, the state is running behind only Texas in putting people to death. The two states are in a class by themselves. The reason is not that Ohio has suddenly decided to get tough. Quite the contrary. This state has gone the direction of much of the country. Only one person was sentenced to death last year. More convicts are getting life-without-parole, an option the state moved to in the 1990s. With DNA evidence having vindicated a fair number of convicted murderers, and with the public seeing life-without-parole as a real alternative, public pressure to execute has somewhat waned...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 25, 2010 (boomark / email).