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    Why do I have this lingering feeling that Kasich is going to commute more sentences? Is he going to run for something again? Is he going to switch parties and claim he's one of the "good guys"?

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    My father believed that Kasich was running just so that he could get free food at restaurants across this country, and have an audience to witness it.

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    Ohio governor spares record number of death row inmates

    By Andrew Welsh-Huggins
    The Associated Press

    COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Gov. John Kasich has finished dealing with executions for the remainder of his time in office following a modern-era record of death penalty commutations.

    The Republican governor spared seven men from execution during his two terms in office, including commutations on March 26 and July 20. Kasich allowed 15 executions to proceed, including the July 18 execution of Robert Van Hook for strangling, stabbing and dismembering a man he met in a Cincinnati bar more than 30 years ago.

    Not since Democrat Mike DiSalle spared six death row inmates in the early 1960s has an Ohio governor spared so many killers during periods when the state had an active death chamber. DiSalle allowed six executions to proceed.

    Democratic Gov. Richard Celeste commuted eight death sentences just days before leaving office in 1991, but none of those inmates' executions was imminent.

    Kasich "appreciates the gravity of this authority and therefore carefully considers these cases to make decisions that further justice," said spokesman

    Kasich's immediate predecessor, Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland, commuted five death sentences and allowed 17 executions during his four-year term.

    Ohio resumed executions in 1999 under Gov. Bob Taft after a 36-year gap. Taft, a Republican, allowed 20 executions to proceed and spared just one inmate based on concerns raised by DNA evidence not available at the time of trial.

    Nationwide, governors have spared 288 death row inmates since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of capital punishment in 1976, with a handful spared each year over the past decade. That doesn't include mass clemencies in states — such as New Jersey in 2007 — where the death penalty was abolished and entire death rows were emptied.

    Sparing inmates is not the political death knell it might have been in decades past, thanks to concerns about innocence raised by DNA testing and the role of severe mental illness on some offenders' behavior.

    "Kasich's decisions to commute reflect a societal shift away from an unquestioning belief in the value of the death penalty or at least the value in every case," said Lori Shaw, a University of Dayton law professor.

    Strickland said he doesn't think he paid a political price for his commutations, which he tried to use "as judiciously and appropriately as I could."

    Taft said he's now opposed to capital punishment except in the most severe cases, such as acts of terrorism, multiple victims or the killing of a police officer.

    He also backs findings of a state Supreme Court commission that recommended against the death penalty for inmates suffering severe mental illness at the time of the crime, and in cases where a homicide was committed during other crimes such as burglaries or robberies.

    "The climate is a little different in regard to the death sentence today," Taft said. "Governors have more latitude or leeway to consider a number of factors that may not have been considered in prior times."

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    Ohio just can't get a good governor. I'd expect better from a swing state that frequently goes red. I really hope Kasich doesn't commute anyone else before leaving office, but he's such deluded buffoon it wouldn't surprise me if he did.

    As for former governor Taft, someone should make him look the families of the victims of the DR inmates, and tell them their lives had less value because they weren't L.E.O.'s. I support capital punishment for killing law enforcement as much as the next person, but it's insulting to say they have more of a right to not be murdered than other citizens.

    Sounds like democrat Strickland is actually the least contemptible of these three, crazy as that sounds.
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    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aaron View Post
    Sounds like democrat Strickland is actually the least contemptible of these three, crazy as that sounds.
    Plot twist!
    Violence and death seem to be the only answers that some people understand.

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    I don't think he will, I don't think he wants the negative publicity. But either way good riddance to this RINO.

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    Ohio prosecutor’s death-penalty stance offends Vatican official

    A Vatican official has encouraged an Ohio prosecutor to go to confession after defying the Catholic Church’s new policy the death penalty is never acceptable.

    Paul Mueller, a vice director at the Vatican Observatory, wrote a letter weeks ago to Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters saying he was scandalized that Deters would use his office to “oppose and confuse the teachings of the Church.”

    Deters, a Catholic, has been pursuing the death penalty in the re-sentencing case of a convicted serial killer.

    Earlier this month, Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching on the death penalty. The policy previously said the Catholic Church would consider capital punishment if it was the only way to defend human lives.

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    So this clown wants to cry about a prosecutor doing his job? Catholic officials need to shut their mouths on the death penalty and focus on the sexual abuse in their ranks. They're just as contemptible as the drug companies.
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    Proposed Ohio Law Could Make Abortion Punishable By Death Penalty

    After passing a bill through the House that would ban abortion at 6 weeks, Ohio Republicans are considering legislation that would ban abortion completely in the state and make the procedure punishable by life in prison or even the death penalty.

    House Bill 565 allows for no exceptions for abortion in cases of rape, incest, or danger to a woman's life. Under the law, fetuses would be classified as "unborn humans," making abortion punishable under the Ohio criminal code. This means that a woman who receives an abortion and doctors who perform the procedure could face criminal penalties, ranging from a prison sentence to capital punishment.

    WOSU notes that the bill is being considered by the Ohio House's health committee and that it is unlikely to be voted on this year. HB 565 is just the latest in a string of anti-choice bills drafted by Ohio Republicans. Republicans' "heartbeat" bill - which passed the House last week - was previously vetoed by Gov. John Kasich, who instead signed a 20-week ban into law.

    "Ohio just took us one step closer to becoming a forced-birth nation," #VOTERPROCHOICE cofounder Heidi Sieck said in a statement to Refinery29 Monday. "Legislators in Ohio are banning abortion before women even know they're pregnant - and we must stand up and speak out against this dangerous bill." After Brett Kavanaugh's contentious confirmation, the Supreme Court now has a conservative majority, meaning it is possible for Roe v. Wade to be overturned.

    Ohio is far from the only state attacking women's reproductive rights: Alabama and West Virginia have added language into their state constitutions that curtails public funds for abortion and gives fetuses the same rights as people.

    Despite the assault on abortion from Republican legislatures, polls show most Americans are in favor of keeping Roe v. Wade. “This November, voters overwhelmingly saw the important role lawmakers serve in stopping attacks on their health and rights," Dr. Leana Wen, president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, said in a statement to Refinery29. "People in states like Ohio that do not have this critical backstop face a heightened threat to abortion access. We must fight harder than ever to protect every woman's right to control her own body, life, and future. We know the majority of Americans want access to safe, legal abortion. It’s time politicians listen to us - access to safe, legal abortion is a human right."

    (source: refinery29.com)
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