Mike DeWine: “I think, Madam Chair, the other thing that I have talked with the CEO quite extensively about is training.”

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.

We need some immigrants to come in here.

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