End this insanity
Thomas Suddes’ Feb. 4 column “Will Ohio death penalty become more cruel?”
The commentary just confirms that the death penalty must be banned in Ohio and the nation.
Former Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections Director Gary Mohr is horrified when thinking that the legislature will use suffocation by nitrogen hypoxia for future executions.
Mohr says this would place a huge burden on Ohio prison staff both in relation to resource usage and their mental health.
Add this to the already long list of well-documented, data-driven reasons to end the death penalty.
Execution is not a deterrent to crime. Period.
The cost of the death penalty is extreme and again, does not deter violent, horrific crimes.
According to Mohr, the “worst of the worst” are not on death row in Ohio. Many victim’s families of death row inmates have said do not kill this person “in our name.”
The death penalty has been proven to be racially biased where people of color and people without the means for proper defense are more likely to receive it. Many innocent people have been wrongly executed.
Please call or write Gov. Mike Dewine and your Ohio legislators and urge them to end this insanity.
The death penalty is morally and ethically wrong.
Deborah A. Crawford, Columbus
Forget about the forgetting
Way, way back when I was a teenager, my mom sometimes said to me “You’d forget your head if it weren’t screwed on.”
Yep. I forgot things.
I had “other things” on my mind. So, I’m wondering why there is so much concern if Donald Trump or Joe Biden forget things.
It isn’t as if they have nothing on their minds but the answer to a question posed by a reporter or an investigator.
Ben Freudenreich, Columbus