Changes sought in death-penalty law
Associated Press
COLUMBUS
A bipartisan duo of state senators is working on several proposals to revise Ohio’s capital punishment law.
The measures from Republican Sen. Bill Seitz of Cincinnati and Democratic Sen. Sandra Williams of Cleveland would incorporate some recommendations from a state task force that spent more than two years studying the three-decade-old law.
The senators recently introduced their first bill in a series of measures they say are aimed at improving fairness and confidence in Ohio’s use of the death penalty.
Among other changes, the bill would require judges presiding over post-conviction relief proceedings to specify in their findings why each claim was granted or denied.
Seitz says he and Williams expect to introduce additional bills before July.