Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Sep 10, 2020
Eight years after his exoneration from death row, an Ohio trial court judge has declared that Joe D’Ambrosio (pictured) was “wrongfully imprisoned.” The August 31, 2020 ruling by Cuyahoga County C…
Costs
,Innocence
,Jul 15, 2021
Studies have consistently found that a system of criminal law in which the death penalty is available as a punishment is far more expensive than a system …
Innocence
,Public Opinion
,Recent Legislative Activity
,Feb 23, 2021
A bipartisan group of legislators has announced the introduction of a bill to repeal Ohio’s death penalty. In a virtual press conference on February 18, 2021, four Republican and four Democratic legislators spoke about the latest effort to end cap…
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Apr 06, 2020
Ohio death-row prisoner Melvin Bonnell (pictured) has asked the Ohio Supreme Court to vacate his conviction and death sentence after his lawyers discovered physical evidence from his case that Cuyahoga Co…
Arbitrariness
,Race
,Sep 17, 2021
An African-American man sentenced to death in Hamilton County, Ohio in 1999 for the murder of a white man is seeking to overturn his conviction and death sentence based on evidence from a recently published study …
