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Kill The Death Penalty

“As a Catholic person, I believe that the death penalty is a violation of natural law and a direct contradiction to Catholic social teaching. But much more than the act of execution itself demeaning the sanctity of life, the capital punishment system steals funding that could be used to protect what I believe to be equally sacred: the lives of those experiencing poverty, war, lack of access to basic necessities and marginalization.”

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Today is World Day Against the Death Penalty. It’s time to end it in Ohio for good.

October 10 marks World Day Against the Death Penalty. This year, the annual observance day comes on the heels of five recent executions that were carried out in the span of a week, a stark reminder of how prevalent use of the death penalty still is in our country.

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After 200th death row exoneration, it’s time to end death penalty

This summer, the 200th prisoner was exonerated from death row. This shocking milestone teaches us that wherever the death penalty exists, innocent people are at risk of being wrongfully executed. In 2021, the Death Penalty Information Center dubbed this national reality an “innocence epidemic.”

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Reimagining justice: Why the death penalty should be left in the past

Capital punishment is, and always has been, a hypocritical act that disproportionately affects marginalized communities. It punishes individuals whose circumstances are deeply rooted in systemic failures rather than personal shortcomings. 

In January 2024, Ohio lawmakers proposed a bill that would allow execution by nitrogen gas asphyxiation — a method that deprives the body of oxygen and has been criticized by the U.N. Human Rights Officefor potentially violating treaties against cruel and inhumane punishment.

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Last Week America Carried Out Its 1,600th Execution Since 1976. When Will the Madness Stop?

On Thursday night, Alan Miller became the second person put to death in Alabama using nitrogen hypoxia. Miller was convicted in the 1999 killing of three men, and this was his second trip to Alabama’s death chamber. The state had previously attempted to execute him by lethal injection in 2022.

With Miller’s death, this country has now executed 1,600 people since the United States Supreme Court revived capital punishment in its 1976 Gregg v. Georgia decision. The Washington Post rightly labeled the 1,600 mark “a grim milestone.”

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U.S. reaches 1,600 executions since death penalty was reinstated

The United States reached a grim milestone Thursday for opponents of the death penalty.

Alan Eugene Miller was executed by Alabama’s controversial new nitrogen gas method. Miller’s death marks the fifth execution in the nation in the past week and the United States’ 1,600th in the modern era.

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Ohio hasn’t executed anyone on death row since 2018. Here’s where the state’s cases stand

While it remains unlikely executions will resume in Ohio with Gov. Mike DeWine in office, the death penalty has received new attention following Tuesday’s execution of Marcellus Williams in Missouri.

Williams was executed by order of Missouri Gov. Mike Parson after a request for a stay was denied by the U.S. Supreme Court — despite pleas from advocates to spare the defendant, including the original prosecutor in his case, because he may have been innocent.

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After 200 death row exonerations, will we finally put an end to the death penalty?

Last week brought new evidence of crippling flaws in America’s death penalty system. The number of people exonerated and freed from death row over the last 50 years reached 200.

Such flaws appear irreparable. They remind us of the damage that capital punishment does to some of our most important legal and political values. They offer powerful reasons as to why America should end the death penalty.

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