06/17/2026
“‘The moral justification I had,’ DeWine told reporters, ‘no longer exists.’”
“As DeWine gets ready to leave elected office, the longtime Republican official had been hinting at his personal opposition to capital punishment for some time. He’s delayed every scheduled ex*****on since January 2019, some more than once, with the de facto statewide moratorium nearing eight years now.”
https://www.ideastream.org/2026-06-16/gov-dewine-plans-to-make-announcement-on-death-penalty-in-ohio.
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