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OPINION: Ohio’s string of death penalty mistakes casts doubt over capital punishment’s usefulness

By Tim Zelina
2 weeks ago
in :  Law, Opinion, State
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Lethal injection table. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

After multiple mistakes in executing capital punishment, opinion writer Tim Zelina argues it’s time to leave the death penalty behind. More than 100 countries have abolished the death penalty on the grounds it is an excessively cruel punishment. In the United States, Ohio is one of 30 states in the majority that still have not abolished the death penalty. However, …

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