Ohio ranked 2nd to Texas in executions this year

The annual report by the Death Penalty Information Center showed Ohio's 5 executions this year (a 6th one scheduled for earlier this month was postponed) compared to 24 in Texas. 4 states had 4 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 5th-straight year to 3,366.

Ohio, which has had 24 executions since 1999, has 2 lethal injections planned in the first 5 weeks of 2007.

(source : Columbus Dispatch)

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