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Ohio Death Row Growing Smaller

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Alan Johnson's report in today's Columbus Dispatch.  LINKWith the number of condemned killers shrinking and new death sentences a rarity, does it mean the beginning of the end of Ohio's Death Row?Anthony Kirkland of Cincinnati became the first person sentenced to death in Ohio this year yesterday for the murder of two teenage girls. Only one person was sentenced to death in Ohio all of last year.The Capital Crimes Annual Report being released today by Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray showed that as of Dec. 31, there were 163 pending death sentences, including two inmates who have two apiece and one who is imprisoned out of state.That means Ohio's Death Row, which once held 204 people, was down to 160 residents, including one woman...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 01, 2010 (boomark / email).