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"Ohio court weighs 4 execution date requests," is the AP report via the Toledo Free Press.The pending request is among four before the state Supreme Court and one of several expected to come in the next few months. Ohio has between 15 and 20 inmates who have exhausted their appeals and are probably eligible - or ?ripe? in the language of attorneys - for an execution date, according to both the State Public Defender?s Office and the Ohio Attorney General. The number is unprecedented for a state that has executed 28 inmates since 1999 but which still has a majority of its original death row inmates behind bars. There are 177 men and two women currently on death row. ?We haven?t had this kind of situaton in Ohio before where we?ve had this many cases all ripe,? Matt Kanai, head of the Attorney General?s capital crimes unit, said Monday...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 26, 2008 (boomark / email).