{"id":375,"date":"2023-11-15T20:09:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T20:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/articles\/ohio-fair-courts-alliance-support-for-senate-bill-101\/"},"modified":"2023-11-15T20:09:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T20:09:49","slug":"ohio-fair-courts-alliance-support-for-senate-bill-101","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/articles\/ohio-fair-courts-alliance-support-for-senate-bill-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Fair Courts Alliance\u2014Support for Senate Bill 101"},"template":"","class_list":["post-375","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"","featured_image":null,"article_type":153,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"70\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":359}","{\"site_id\":\"70\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":360}"],"related_issues":[91,423],"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<h3><b>Ohio Fair Courts Alliance Testifies <\/b><b>On Senate Bill 101 <\/b><b>Before the Ohio Senate Judiciary Committee<\/b><\/h3>\r\nNovember 15, 2023\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chairman Manning, Vice Chair Reynolds, Ranking Member Hicks-Hudson, and members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you for the opportunity to provide proponent testimony on Senate Bill 101, which would abolish the death penalty in the state of Ohio and modify the number of jurors that may be challenged in cases where a defendant may be sentenced to life imprisonment. This testimony is on behalf of the Ohio Fair Courts Alliance, a statewide network of organizations, community leaders and concerned citizens. We are dedicated to creating a court system that exemplifies and protects equity, fairness and justice for all.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We support this legislation to end the death penalty in Ohio as it is racially biased, unjust, inhumane, arbitrary, and erroneous. Former Ohio Supreme Court Justice Paul Pfeifer characterized the death penalty as a \u201cdeath lottery\u2026depending on where you happen to commit the crime and the attitude of the prosecutor.\u201d This is not justice.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eleven men have been exonerated from Ohio\u2019s death row, who collectively spent 216 years incarcerated for crimes they did not commit. For every five people Ohio has executed, one has been exonerated from death row. As one Ohio exoneree stated, \u201cwhen execution is the result, the system must be perfect 100 percent of the time,\u201d and we know that it is not.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You have the power to right these wrongs moving forward. This legislation has unprecedented support from both Republicans and Democrats, signaling a momentous shift in public opinion on attitudes about capital punishment. In addition, this legislation is endorsed by advocacy groups, death row exonerees, victim\u2019s family members, and religious organizations.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nationally, 23 states plus the District of Columbia have legislatively abolished the death penalty. 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