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Ohio AP has two articles of note, today.  First is, "Ohio prosecutor uses new approach to death penalty," via the Akron Beacon Journal.Death penalty cases were once common in Franklin County, though death sentences were not. Without acknowledging a problem obtaining the punishment, the county's veteran prosecutor has quietly scaled back the number of capital indictments he has sought in recent years. The county that led the state in death penalty cases in 2004, with 34, had just three capital cases last year, according to data collected by the Ohio Public Defender's Office. Prosecutor Ron O'Brien, a Republican serving his third four-year term, says that in the past his office focused only on the elements that make a case eligible for a death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 23, 2008 (boomark / email).