Ohio resumed executions in 1999 after a 36-year gap. Sparing inmates is not the political death knell it might have been in decades past, thanks to concerns about innocence raised by DNA testing and the role of severe mental illness on some offenders' behavior. "Kasich's decisions to commute reflect a societal shift away from an unquestioning belief in the value of the death penalty or at least the value in every case," said a University of Dayton law professor.
Strickland said he doesn't think he paid a political price for his commutations, which he tried to use "as judiciously and appropriately as I could."
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The above quotations are from 2018 Ohio Gubernatorial race: debates and news coverage.
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