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Ohio ranked 2nd to Texas in executions this year
By Alan Johnson
The Columbus Dispatch
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Ohio once again ranked second in the nation to Texas in the number of executions this year.
The annual report by the Death Penalty Information Center showed Ohio's five executions this year (a sixth one scheduled for earlier this month was postponed) compared to 24 in Texas. Four states had four executions.
However, Ohio's continued high pace of executions runs counter to a national trend in reduced use of capital punishment which reached a 10-year-low of 53 this year, the center reported.
The number of people on death row nationally also dropped for the fifth-straight year to 3,366.
Ohio, which has had 24 executions since 1999, has two lethal injections planned in the first five weeks of 2007.
Copyright © 2006, The Columbus Dispatch
By Alan Johnson
The Columbus Dispatch
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Ohio once again ranked second in the nation to Texas in the number of executions this year.
The annual report by the Death Penalty Information Center showed Ohio's five executions this year (a sixth one scheduled for earlier this month was postponed) compared to 24 in Texas. Four states had four executions.
However, Ohio's continued high pace of executions runs counter to a national trend in reduced use of capital punishment which reached a 10-year-low of 53 this year, the center reported.
The number of people on death row nationally also dropped for the fifth-straight year to 3,366.
Ohio, which has had 24 executions since 1999, has two lethal injections planned in the first five weeks of 2007.
Copyright © 2006, The Columbus Dispatch