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,Mar 19, 2021
Former Ohio Governor, Two Attorneys General Call for Repeal of State’s Death Penalty
The movement to repeal capital punishment in Ohio has gained additional steam as former Governor Robert Taft and former state attorneys general Jim Petro and Lee Fisher (pictured, left to right) called on the Ohio state legislature to end the state’s death penalty. The three former state officials served together in the legislature when Ohio adopted its capital punishment statute in 1981 and later played key roles in carrying it out. In a March 9, 2021 guest column in The Columbus Dispatch…