#NoDeathPenaltyOH is the official campaign to end Ohio’s death penalty. Since its reintroduction in 1981, the death penalty has proven to be an expensive, racist, arbitrary system that convicts innocent people. Ohio can keep our citizens safe and hold individuals accountable for their actions without the death penalty– in fact, it’s what we already do the vast majority of the time.
SB 101 and HB 259 are bills that would repeal Ohio’s death penalty. They have strong bipartisan support, demonstrating how important repeal is to both sides of the aisle.
It’s time to move Ohio forward to join the 23 other states that have already abandoned the death penalty.
Key partners in the fight to abolish Ohio’s death penalty
- The 8th Amendment Project
- ACLU National
- Amnesty International
- American Solidarity Party
- The Amos Project
- Catholic Commission of Cuyahoga County
- Catholic Conference of Ohio
- Catholic Mobilizing Network
- Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty
- Catholics Against Capital Punishment
- Campaign to End the Death Penalty
- The Central District Conference of Mennonite Church USA
- Death Penalty Action
- Death Penalty Focus
- Democrats for Life of America
- Dominican Sisters of Peace
- Episcopal Peace Fellowship
- Equal Justice USA
- Faith in Public Life
- flocc — Faith Leaders of Color Coalition
- Greater Dayton Christian Connections
- Innovation Ohio
- International Commission against Execution
- The International Federation of ACATs
- Journey of Hope
- League of Women Voters – Ohio
- The Marianist Social Justice Collaborative
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Coalition
- The Musketeer Association
- National Congress on Faith & Social Justice
- The National Council of Jewish Women, Cleveland
- National Hispanic Leadership Agenda
- NAACP
- Ohio Fair Courts Alliance
- The Ohio Student Association
- The Ohio Justice and Policy Center
- The Ohio Transformation Fund
- The Ohio Organizing Collaborative
- Penal Reform International
- People of Faith Against the Death Penalty
- Pro Black, Pro Life
- Reprieve
- Responsible Business Initiative for Justice
- Sisters of the Precious Blood
- Soto Zen Buddhist Association
- Southern Center for Human Rights
- Student Abolition
- Unitarian Universalist Justice Ohio (UUJ)
- Vote Common Good
- Witness to Innocence
- The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty