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| 2008 saw fewer executions |
| By The Columbus Dispatch |
| Published: 12/11/2008 |
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OHIO - Ohio was the only state outside the southern United States to carry out an execution in 2008, a year in which use of capital punishment declined nationally by 12 percent and new death sentences hit the lowest level in 32 years, the annual report by the Death Penalty Information Center concluded. The number of executions this year, 37, was a 14-year-low. Further, the center said the total number of death sentences handed down nationally, estimated at 111 by year's end, is a 40 percent reduction from 2007 and the smallest number since 1976 when the death penalty was reinstated after a constitutional challenge. Ohio had three death sentences this year, down from five in 2007. The all-time high in the modern era was 25 in 1977. The reduced numbers are attributable, in part, to a nearly two-year fight over the constitutionality of lethal injection that resulted in a de facto moratorium. An April decision in a Kentucky case by the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for executions to resume. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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