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Ohio Death Penalty Hearing

Ohio Supreme Court Justice and Moritz alum Paul Pfeifer testified at a legislative hearing earlier this week in favor of repealing Ohio's death penalty law, which he helped create as a legislator in the early 1980s. See coverage from the Columbus Dispatch and the Toledo Blade. The Dispatch article includes a quote from Moritz emeritus professor of criminal law Larry Herman, who also testified. The House Criminal Justice Committee held the hearing on recently-introduced H.B. 160, which would abolish the death penalty in Ohio.