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Attorney General Dave Yost at a news conference discussing alternative methods for carrying out executions on Jan. 30, 2024.
Sarah Donaldson
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Statehouse News Bureau
Government/Politics
Ohio’s top cop: Stalled executions are ‘mockery of the justice system’
Sarah Donaldson
Ohio’s death row wait time now stretches longer than 22 years, with more and more inmates dying from natural causes—or by suicide—than from a sentence.
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