To Governor Kasich,
Why do Ohio Republicans
sentence more blacks
to death on the
gurney rack?
Will you grant clemency
to James Frazier, African
American sentenced to death
by the Republican Supreme Court
of Ohio?
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Note: Please ask the governor to give clemency in April of this year to James Frazier. (email link below)
Why has corporate media never asked Kasich in presidential debates about his 12 executions?
Ohio had suspended executions, but the Republican Supreme Court of Ohio has just scheduled the death date of a prisoner despite not having lethal drugs. That court and the governor have made Ohio the only Northern state still involved in prisoner murder.
Only 6 states, only 12% of US states, commited state murder in 2015. They were Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia. Texas is 1st in US history in executions, Virginia second. In 2016, four states, all Southern, have executed. They are Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Texas, all southern states with a history of racist executions. Missouri and Ohio have scheduled executions.
Governor Kasich has denied clemency to 12 Ohioans who were then murdered by
the state. In some recent years Ohio has been the only Northern
state involved in executions. Its parole board is primarily white male
and has been made up largely of employees of the prison industry which was privatized
by a Republican governor whose brother profiteered.
The number if blacks on death row who were executed is multiple that of whites on death row who were executed. 2 of the articles linked below discuss the racism of Ohio executions.
Please ask Governor Kasich to give clemency.
http://www.governor.ohio.gov/contact/contactthegovernor.aspx http://amnestyusa.org http://deathpenaltyinfo.org http://innocenceproject.org http://www.otse.org/new-data-on-race-death-penalty-at-center-of-university-of-akron-rethinking-race-event/ http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/execution-list-2015 http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/execution-list-2016 http://www.otse.org/new-data-on-race-death-penalty-at-center-of-university-of-akron-rethinking-race-event/ http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/02/19/execution-date-set-despite-Ohio-not-having-lethal-drugs.html Ohio executions disproportionately African-American, especially if the victim is white
