Mike DeWine: “I am not satisfied with the answer.”

They've filled jobs, repaired homes, paid taxes, started businesses and supported their families.

The prolonged effect of capital litigation on victims’ families complicates broad claims that either an execution or a life sentence necessarily provides closure.

If you look at the growth in the state of Ohio in the last 10 years and that continued this last year, 60% of our growth in the state has come from immigrants.

I no longer believe Ohio’s experience supports the deterrence argument that once shaped my position.