Tag Archives: Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty

Will Ohio’s Death Penalty End?

Posted on March 8, 2020 by Justice for Willie

Four times in the last decade Ohio’s Democrat Senator Nickie Antonio has sponsored a bill to abolish the death penalty in the state, without success. This year feels different. With executions halted because lethal injection drugs are unobtainable, pressure is … Continue reading →

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Conservatives Opposing the Death Penalty

Posted on March 31, 2019 by Justice for Willie

A Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) seems an unlikely setting for action against the US death penalty: conservatives have hitherto been associated with an unthinking “tough on crime” philosophy that included support for capital punishment. Perhaps all this is set … Continue reading →

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Death Penalty Errors

Posted on June 21, 2015 by Justice for Willie

The repeal of the death penalty in Nebraska last month was described by Andrea Lyon in the New York Daily News as a ‘Nixon-visits-Red-China moment’: in over 40 years no other conservative state has abolished the death penalty. Libertarian-minded conservatives formed … Continue reading →

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