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Ohio Governor Mike DeWine (pic­tured) has issued reprieves fur­ther post­pon­ing four exe­cu­tions that had been sched­uled between January and May 2022. The governor’s orders, announced September 10, 2021, resched­uled the exe­cu­tions for between December 2024 and May…

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A new poll of reg­is­tered Texas vot­ers has found that sup­port for the death penal­ty, while still strong, has fall­en sig­nif­i­cant­ly over the past decade. A University of Texas/​Texas Tribune inter­net sur­vey of 1,200 reg­is­tered vot­ers con­duct­ed from April 16 – 22, 2021 found that 63% say they favor keep­ing the death penal­ty for peo­ple con­vict­ed of vio­lent crimes. That num­ber is down from 75% in February 2015 and 78% when the poll began in…

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