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Time to Slow March to Death

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an editorial in today's Cleveland Plain Dealer.  It concerns Kevin Keith's clemency hearing last week, and the call for a systemic review of all of Ohio's death sentences.  LINKBut at the very least, the evidence presented last week ought to give the parole board -- and ultimately Gov. Ted Strickland, who has final say on its recommendations and on whether to proceed with Keith's execution -- plenty of reasons to call a timeout. Before Ohio or any other state puts someone to death, it had better be sure that person is guilty as charged. This page has long opposed capital punishment. It has also called for a moratorium on executions while Ohio conducts a top-to-bottom review of each case on death row and how capital cases are conducted in the state...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 18, 2010 (boomark / email).