{"article":{"id":293164,"heading":"Time To End Ohio's Racist Executions","author":"Abolitionist","created":"2016-02-28 18:38:03","modified":"2016-02-28 18:38:03","last_modified":"Mon, 29 Feb 2016 01:38:03","article":"

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?

*

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<\/a>

http:\/\/amnestyusa.org<\/a>

http:\/\/deathpenaltyinfo.org<\/a>

http:\/\/innocenceproject.org<\/a>

http:\/\/www.otse.org\/new-data-on-race-death-penalty-at-center-of-university-of-akron-rethinking-race-event\/<\/a>

http:\/\/www.deathpenaltyinfo.org\/execution-list-2015<\/a>

http:\/\/www.deathpenaltyinfo.org\/execution-list-2016<\/a>

http:\/\/www.otse.org\/new-data-on-race-death-penalty-at-center-of-university-of-akron-rethinking-race-event\/<\/a>

http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/content\/stories\/local\/2016\/02\/19\/execution-date-set-despite-Ohio-not-having-lethal-drugs.html<\/a>

Ohio executions disproportionately African-American, especially if the victim is white





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