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    Seems he is indeed negative, so any speculation was for naught. I know it's ghoulish to speculate on such things, but I don't really care. I have no respect for the man. I don't want him to get COVID, but I don't feel bad speculating about the possible death of incumbent politicians.
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    Im wondering how can these politicians get turnaround results so quickly? Us taxpayers have to wait forever to do so.

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    SCOTUS denied review of Ohio LI protocol. Concurrence by Sotomayor:

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/...04.pdf#page=64

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    Ohio Supreme Court to decide whether state’s death penalty protocol is invalid

    COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear whether the state’s execution protocol is invalid because it didn’t go through the proper rule-making procedures.

    The court’s decision sets up another potential complication for Ohio’s death penalty, which has been under an effective moratorium since 2018 as state officials have struggled to find execution drugs.

    By a 4-3 vote, the Supreme Court accepted two appeals filed respectively by the two Ohioans who are next on the state’s execution schedule: Cleveland Jackson and James O’Neal.

    The appeals claim Ohio’s three-drug lethal-injection protocol is a rule and, under the law, all state-level rules must be first filed with the state legislature’s Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review, as well as either the secretary of state or with the director of the Legislative Service Commission.

    Ohio’s execution protocol is invalid because it wasn’t filed with any of those bodies, attorneys for O’Neal and Jackson argue.

    Two lower courts previously sided against O’Neal and Jackson. The Tenth District Court of Appeals ruled that Ohio’s execution protocol isn’t a “rule” but rather “an order respecting the duties of employees.” Rules, the appeals court held, govern “day-to-day procedures or operations,” but executions do not occur on a daily basis.

    In each of the two cases, Justices Michael Donnelly, Judith French, Sharon Kennedy, and Melody Stewart voted to accept the appeals. Donnelly and Stewart are the two Democrats on the court.

    Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor, as well as Justices Pat Fischer and Pat DeWine, dissented.

    Since taking office last year, Gov. Mike DeWine has frozen Ohio’s death penalty for a different reason: the state’s continuing problems with finding a pharmaceutical company willing to sell drugs for use in executions.

    The governor has repeatedly expressed his concern that if companies find that Ohio used its drugs to put people to death, they will refuse to sell any of its drugs (not just the ones used in executions) to the state. That would endanger the ability of thousands of Ohioans – such as Medicaid recipients, state troopers, and prison inmates – to get drugs through state programs.

    Any new cocktail of lethal-injection drugs must also be deemed by the courts not to be unconstitutionally “cruel and unusual” punishment.

    Jackson was convicted of murdering 17-year-old Leneshia Williams and 3-year-old Jayla Grant in Lima during a 2002 apartment robbery. His execution date, which has been rescheduled six times, is currently set for Jan. 13, 2021.

    O’Neal, a Cincinnati man convicted of shooting his wife to death in 1993, is set to be put to death on Feb. 18, 2021.

    https://www.cleveland.com/open/2020/...s-invalid.html
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    Rep. Becker announces filing of 12 articles of impeachment against Gov. DeWine

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    State Rep. John Becker (R-Clermont County) announced today that he has officially filed 12 articles of impeachment against Governor Mike DeWine.

    He has been joined by his colleagues Reps. Candice Keller, Nino Vitale and Paul Zeltwanger in an effort to restore the rule of law.

    While the General Assembly has attempted to work with the governor, he has vetoed Senate Bill (SB) 55. He has threatened to veto other reasonable legislation such as SB 1, SB 311, and House Bill (HB) 618.

    The 12 articles of impeachment outline DeWine’s alleged abuse of power and alleged violations of the Ohio and United States Constitutions, as well as multiple sections of the Ohio Revised Code.

    "DeWine’s mismanagement, malfeasance, misfeasance, abuse of power and other crimes include, but are not limited to, meddling in the conduct of a presidential primary election, arbitrarily closing and placing curfews on certain businesses, while allowing other businesses to remain open," Becker said. "He weaponized the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation to bully and harass businesses and the people; to enforce a statewide mask mandate and other controversial measures of dubious 'value,' making Ohio a hostile work environment.

    "Additionally, DeWine had the further audacity to include congregants at places of worship, forcing citizens to choose between worshipping their God and worshipping at the altar of unbridled government. Many Ohioans find the controversial mask mandate offensive, degrading, humiliating and insulting. There is also evidence that masks can be a health hazard by retaining bacteria, viruses and creating panic attacks and other physiological difficulties.

    “Rather than hearing the cries of Ohioans, Governor DeWine continues to stifle those cries by finding more inventive ways to use masks to muffle the voices of the people. He continues to have callous disregard for the fact that his isolation policies have led to a shockingly high number of suicides, alarming rates of drug abuse, persistently high unemployment, and the forced abandonment of the elderly by their loved ones,” Becker said.

    The House Resolution containing articles of impeachment cannot be vetoed, and require a majority (50 votes) in the Ohio House of Representatives and then a two-thirds majority (22 votes) in the Ohio Senate for conviction and removal from office.

    Polling has revealed widespread public support for impeachment. These occurred in late August:

    • ABC6/Fox28 Columbus poll generated 18,420 responses resulting in greater than 83 percent favoring impeachment.

    • WSPD Toledo poll generated 1,599 responses resulting in 94 percent favoring impeachment.

    • Mahoning Matters poll generated 1,190 responses resulting in greater than 67 percent favoring impeachment.

    "These polls are a clear indication of where the public stood on Governor DeWine when the articles of impeachment were first drafted. Predictably, his popularity has continued to plummet," Becker said.

    Becker calls on the speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, Rep. Bob Cupp (R-Lima), to assign the articles of impeachment immediately to the Federalism Committee. As chairman of the Federalism Committee, Becker has a reputation for fair process and a no-nonsense approach. “I’m envisioning two hearings in early December followed by a floor vote to allow for a trial in the Senate,” said Becker. “The people of Ohio are looking forward to ending the madness and a governor gone wild,” Becker said.

    https://highlandcountypress.com/Cont...ne-/2/20/61929
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    DeWine: Lethal injection no longer execution option

    COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Lethal injection is no longer an option for Ohio executions, and lawmakers must choose a different method of capital punishment before any inmates can be put to death in the future, Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said Tuesday.

    It’s “pretty clear” there won’t be any executions next year, DeWine told The Associated Press during a year-end interview, adding he doesn’t see support in the Legislature for making a switch in execution method a priority. Ohio has an “unofficial moratorium” on capital punishment, he said.

    “Lethal injection appears to us to be impossible from a practical point of view today,” the governor said.

    DeWine said he still supports capital punishment as Ohio law. But he has come to question its value since the days he helped write the state’s current law — enacted in 1981 — because of the long delays between crime and punishment.

    DeWine called himself “much more skeptical about whether it meets the criteria that was certainly in my mind when I voted for the death penalty and that was that it in fact did deter crime, which to me is the moral justification.”

    Messages were left for leaders in the GOP-controlled House and Senate seeking comment.

    Former Republican House Speaker Larry Householder, now under federal indictment for his alleged role in a $60 million bribery scheme, questioned this year whether the state should reconsider capital punishment because of the cost and Ohio’s inability to find lethal drugs.

    The state’s last execution was on July 18, 2018, when Ohio put to death Robert Van Hook for killing David Self in Cincinnati in 1985.

    Also Tuesday, DeWine said he remains optimistic about his ability to govern Ohio despite attempts by fellow GOP lawmakers to limit his powers and even impeach him over his handling of the pandemic.

    “While the few legislators that want to impeach me have gotten headlines, what has not gotten a lot of headlines is the real work,” DeWine said.

    The career politician, who has drawn strident criticism from both right and left, is hopeful about 2021 despite the pandemic surging in many parts of the state, calling next year the “year of recovery.”

    When asked whether he had any regrets about decisions he made in the past nine months, DeWine said does not have the luxury to reflect when there is so much work left to do.

    “There will be time to reflect on that, there will be books written, there will PhDs and dissertations on the whole pandemic and that’s fine but we’re in the battle now,” he said.

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wkb...on-option/amp/

    Say goodbye to Ohio’s death penalty next year.
    Last edited by Neil; 12-08-2020 at 11:45 AM.

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    No vote, no conversation again just an individual deciding that they don't like the death penalty anymore and destroy it.

    What's the point of even pretending that you still want it around DeWhine?
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    DeWhine is just incompetent. If he had any common sense of morality, he would’ve ordered the electric chair reinstated back in 2019 before Henness was supposed to die
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    OldWine doesn’t want it around. There is nothing wrong with their protocol. Michael Merz who blasted their execution protocol didn’t stop the execution of Henness. Even if he did the Supreme Court already upheld their protocol.

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    He’s going to be primaried hard in 2022

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