Ex-lawmakers push to end death penalty in Ohio

(The Center Square) – Nearly 30 former lawmakers who helped bring back the death penalty to Ohio 44 years ago now want it to end.

Twenty-seven members of 114th General Assembly who passed legislation four decades ago to restore capital punishment signed a letter Monday in support of the current Senate Bill 133, which would stop the death penalty.

That bill is in the Senate Judiciary Committee…

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