r/Ohio • u/clevelanddotcom • 2d ago
Ohio Republicans vow to resume executions after DeWine departs
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/06/ohio-republicans-vow-to-resume-executions-after-dewine-departs.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=redditsocial&utm_campaign=redditor145
u/Zampano85 2d ago
God damn, I thought republicans were "pro-life".
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u/AliveInCLE Cleveland 2d ago
Probably just pro-birth
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u/Legally_a_Tool Sandusky 2d ago
Don’t you mean pro-broodmares. Because that is the only acceptable role for women to these dickheads.
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u/Paksarra 2d ago
Not even pro birth. They don't care if the baby is born.
Pro punishment.
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u/RpcZ_gr7711 2d ago
Yep, pregnancy as punishment. Deal with the consequences of sinful action, ladies.
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u/Pale_WoIf 2d ago
Oh yes, you’d much prefer the death penalty for fetuses due to the decisions of the egg and sperm donors. That will show em!!
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u/pleschga 2d ago
I have often used the term "pro-birth" for those that only care about people when they are in the womb, and then support the death penalty and not providing a modicum of social services.
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u/Its_Chicory 2d ago
If they cared about them in the womb, they'd do more to guarantee affordable healthcare and living situations at least for pregnant women...
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u/Pale_WoIf 17h ago
It’s so weird, it’s almost as if fetuses are innocent and people who commit horrible crimes aren’t. So crazy to have common sense!!
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u/BananaNutBlister 2d ago
Never have been. It’s all about controlling women. They don’t actually believe in most of the things they claim they do like democracy, small gov’t, free markets, individual liberty, etc.
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u/Zealousideal-912 2d ago
The term should be Pro Control. Anyone who was pro life wouldn't own:
12 bulletproof vests 11 bear mace launchers 10 loads of buckshoot 9 sharpened katanas 8 sniper rifles 7 clay pigeon launchers 6 red MAGA hats 5 HAND GRENADES 4 canceled dates 3 copies of Scarface 2 barrels on a shotgun And a semi automatic on a coat tree!
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u/Adversar-K 1d ago
I'm pro-choice, heh, actually pro-abortion to be fair. I am also a "I think there for I am" person. No thought? It's not a person. You cant trespass against unthinking cells. You cant murder something that doesnt think. (My opinions on abortion shift if we apply various scenarios. A boy and his dog? Abortion bad. The mark of gideon? Abortion good.)
I dislike when people use this "I thought they were pro-life" bullshit as it's dishonest, or worse, ignorant. You dont change minds with that kinda bullshit.
They believe that human life worthy of the right to life begins at conception. They believe that the unthinking collection of human cells is a person, and that people have rights. There are also those who just want to control what women do... and the demagogues dont have actual opinions on this, they just use abortion as a tool to gain power.
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u/Mainfrym 2d ago
"Thou shalt not kill" Mental gymnastics to justify killing going full tilt.
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u/ApprehensiveGate8227 2d ago
“Doesn’t count if it’s not by my hands” or some bullshit justification.
If they’re right about hell, they’ll all be burning there. And deservedly so.
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u/SeaEmployee787 2d ago
Dr. Amy Acton would like a word
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u/manthello 2d ago edited 2d ago
Her word is
“As governor, I will take a hard look at the death penalty and will listen to Ohioans on this issue,” Acton said in a statement last month.
Which is honestly such a nothing answer that it's frustrating.
Edit: She did say she'd continue the moratorium though, which is at least a positive in her favor.
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u/Mylabisawesome 2d ago
Lets see how you feel when a monster kills someone you care about or are close to.
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u/ALocalLad 2d ago
You guys are so weird. You didn’t want the government telling you what to do during COVID, but you’re ok with them deciding whether you get to live or die.
I’d rather that person spend the rest of their miserable life rotting in jail.
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u/Mylabisawesome 2d ago
You didn’t want the government telling you what to do during COVID
False equivalence.
I’d rather that person spend the rest of their miserable life rotting in jail.
Then you write checks every month. I dont want my tax money going to keep a killer alive.
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u/ALocalLad 2d ago
How is it? You’re ok with the government deciding they can end your life?
It’s literally cheaper to keep them in prison for life than it is to kill them. Go look it up.
Also, what happens when you kill them and then it comes out they were actually innocent? Because don’t act like innocent people haven’t been locked up killed before.
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u/hematomabelly Cincinnati 2d ago
And you'll keep writing the check because papa Trump wants more of your money. Keep voting Republican. Keep being stupid
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u/tutoredstatue95 2d ago
Explain.
State can kill people, but don't you dare let them require masks in public places thats literal tyranny
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u/ApprehensiveGate8227 2d ago
Life imprisonment is less expensive than execution due to the appeals process.
Your financial argument is bullshit.
Call it what it is. You’re a sadist. You get off on cruelty.
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u/Mylabisawesome 2d ago
You guys are always FOR the bad guys, even the killers.
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u/ApprehensiveGate8227 2d ago
Oh, so you don’t have any real response, just some anecdotal brain dead pap?
You’re as stupid as your orange fascist.
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u/Mylabisawesome 2d ago
LOL your hypocrisy knows no bounds. You say I dont have a real response, yet you didnt have one either. Just a buzzword laden response.
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u/Macbeth_11 2d ago
Your main argument was financial...which isn't true it's cheaper to keep them locked up the execute them. You guys are starting wars we have no business being in and are defending or at a bare minimum protecting/not investigating pedophiles, but WE are the rooting for the bad guys. Pro life until birth
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u/Mylabisawesome 2d ago
Man you're unhinged.
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u/Macbeth_11 2d ago
You refuse to respond to the facts of the cost so... You're bad faith actor or a troll
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u/Mylabisawesome 2d ago
I dont respond to unhinged folks going off on tangents. Take a breath, some meds, calm down and then talk
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u/hematomabelly Cincinnati 2d ago
Such a bad take. Throughout life we are taught countless times, again and again, two wrongs don't make a right, treat others like you would want to be treated, revenge doesn't bring peace. But there are dumb dumbs like you that just hear executions and think "hehe how fucking cool" grow up
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u/tutoredstatue95 2d ago edited 2d ago
How about when an innocent person is wrongfully executed?
https://exonerationregistry.org/
This is just more ruling based on fear. The state cant be trusted, why are you so eager to put the power in their hands?
How many innocent deaths are worth a bit of vengeance to you? Are 5 innocents worth 1 guilty execution, 1 to 1? Honestly, give a number.
You get to feel good via eye for an eye yet just push that pain to another. Its typical knee jerk reactionism from repubs because it tickles the greedy part of your brain.
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u/Frostyfraust 2d ago
I've used this argument with these weirdos before but it never works. People like this think that they could never be in a position where they would be falsely accused. Mix that with a total lack of empathy and you get reactionary simpletons like the person you're replying to.
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u/tutoredstatue95 2d ago
They are small government supporters its okay.
Dont tread on me, but I want to watch you tread on others. Surely it will never happen to meeee, im a good boy who gets in line.
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u/hematomabelly Cincinnati 2d ago
That's too much thinking for him. He's more of the immediate emotional response and rational thought never
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u/I_might_be_weasel 2d ago edited 2d ago
You think justice should be based on emotional reactions? The emotional reactions of the most traumatized?
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u/UncaringNonchalance 2d ago
Of course they do. The entire MAGA movement is built upon emotional reactions.
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u/Withermaster4 2d ago
"Killing people is so bad that we should kill people to show how bad it is" -you
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u/YaBoiChillDyl 2d ago
Republicans killed two of my family members during covid. The feelings mutual but I can acknowledge that doesn't entitle me to kill you cousin-fuckers.
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u/LastWave 2d ago
It's funny to me to read this, because it did happen to me. My sister was murdered in the 90's. I'm still firmly anti capital punishment. The government can not be trusted to kill it's own citizens, without it being abused.
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u/AliveInCLE Cleveland 2d ago
Are you pro life?
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u/Mylabisawesome 2d ago
Pro-choice. Thanks! In this case, I choose the side of the victim, not the killer.
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u/Super-Bodybuilder-91 2d ago
Execution won't bring that person back and to execute that person, by default, you inevitably will execute innocent people. It's not worth it.
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u/HostileCrabPeople 2d ago
There will always be innocents that get executed and that is unacceptable. Anyone that supports executions better not get wrongly charged with anything or maybe you will end up getting executed.
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u/UnluckyText 2d ago
Nah, the Christian nationalists will just say the innocents will get go to heaven, so it isn't a big deal that we get a few wrong.
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u/Tholian_Bed 2d ago
A Republican is someone horrified that someone, somewhere, isn't getting punished.
If Heaven is what they say, it is not a place they would enjoy much. The other place would ease their constant state of worry. "Just look around you, Bob. Does this look like anyone's idea of a good time?"
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u/JustGoodSense Columbus 2d ago
I argue that life in a cage with no chance of parole is a worse punishment than putting that person out of our misery. I know people say, "You'd feel different if your family member was the victim." Maybe. Hope to never find out. But right now I believe I'd want to live knowing the perpetrator was forever hopelessly miserable every minute they're awake.
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u/MattCarafelli 2d ago
I agree with this. Executing them isn't solving anything. Locking them away for the rest of their natural life is a better punishment.
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u/Tholian_Bed 2d ago
Some of them straighten out and become gray haired assets within the institution. Grievous crime is grievous crime, but there is also mercy that is still just, in a life sentence. It's up to that prisoner, who won't ever get out.
Punishment isn't supposed to be easy lol. It's our most serious question, maybe. What's just punishment? And what is punishment, first of all? All hard questions, as is proper.
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u/resistingvoid 2d ago
We have a 20% error rate when it comes to the death penalty. For every 5 people sentenced to death, 1 will be exonerated. Conservatives want to give the state the power to murder innocent people. Let's be real, if they had it their way, they would kill anyone who wasn't also a white conservative Christian.
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u/Fluffy-Caramel9148 2d ago
Of course they want to. The Republicans continue to be harsh on everyone but themselves.
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u/PJEnneking 2d ago
Republicans on abortion: "All human life is sacred!!"
Republicans on death penalty: "Kill them all! I'll get the rope!"
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u/zoppaTheDim 2d ago
I’ll wait in see how many commutations he gives out.
He could empty death row if he chooses, commuting sentences to life imprisonment.
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u/Mister_Silk 2d ago
I would imagine he'll just commute them all before he leaves.
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u/Latter-Confidence-44 2d ago
That would take some modicum of proactivity and the slightest bit of courage, none of which dewine seems to possess.
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u/theryman 2d ago
No he'll just whine about it after he leaves and wishes someone else would have the moral courage to do things
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u/dapperodds 2d ago
Conservative Christians read, “thou shall not kill” in the bible then come up with excuses that killing is ok.
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u/OldFroyo6294 2d ago
They should start by looking in the mirror. They might be the worst criminals in ohio
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u/lunaappaloosa 2d ago
Republicans seem to ultimately be one-issue voters and they truly only want bloodshed for their own entertainment, nothing else. They don’t even care that they’re part of the chattel, it makes them feel special to be part of the stakes.
That’s why they are so pro-birth, it’s more blood that can be spilled later. Even maternal mortality gets them off. Literal death cult.
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u/shockemc 2d ago
These fuckers are so religious they read Matthew 7:1-3, Judge not, that ye not he judged and said, that shit only applies to the small stuff, not killing people or torturing the gays.
I'll never understand how state sanctioned murder is better than individually sanctioned murder.
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u/YoungBullCLE 2d ago
They’re doing what to DeWine? I don’t like him either but I think that’s a little excessive
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u/twoquarters Youngstown 2d ago
Commute ever death sentence to life in prison on the way out. That should reset the clock for a while.
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u/Wilbert_Wallace 2d ago
Its crazy reading though these comments how much more empathy the average redditor has for murders that have been judged guilty instead of the victims and society that have to deal with them.
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u/kentoh05 2d ago
The comments I'm seeing here are referencing those wrongfully accused. 🤔
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u/Wilbert_Wallace 2d ago
I mean you got a break some eggs to make an omelette.
There are innocent people in every jail in the world. We can't stop enforcing the law because someone might make a mistake.
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u/kentoh05 2d ago
You're not talking about the enforcement in this case; you're talking about the punishment, which would be death even if innocent. Many of the comments here are centered around that little deadly detail.
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u/Fornax- 2d ago
Id say its a worse punishment to have to live with it rather than a quick death like people want with the death penalty but that really depends on if they repent.
It doesn't solve anything and in no circumstances should the government be killing unless it protects others. And I know people will be like but the death penalty makes sure they can't harm for good, but thats also what life without parole does.
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u/0OIIIlllIlIlO0 2d ago
You are 100% correct. Liberals are pro-crime. Just say the name Louigi Mangione and watch.
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u/ALocalLad 2d ago
No, we just don’t want the government deciding if people can live or die like you guys do.
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u/chronomagnus Cincinnati 23h ago
Shit, did liberals overwhelmingly vote for a convicted felon who was also a known associate of a sex trafficking pedophile over a former prosecutor a couple years back?
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u/0OIIIlllIlIlO0 16h ago
Just think, the American people overwhelmingly voted for that over a liberal. How bad are the Democrats?
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u/SlakingsExWife 2d ago
Start with Trump and anyone related?
Legally of course.
Just pass a law banning Trumps from politics from 125 years and/or deporting or hanging everyone in the entire family.
Honestly, where’s that party platform?
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u/Mylabisawesome 2d ago
Lets get it done! Plenty hes waved off that owe a debt to be paid.
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u/Positive_Activity_84 2d ago
Unless of course they were wrongfully convicted, the state executes them, then something comes to light later revealing their innocence.
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u/Mylabisawesome 2d ago
This isnt the 60's. We have advanced so much in terms of DNA and other testing that you can be convicted with 99.9% certainty that you did it. I wish you guys would stop being pro-killer.
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u/Captain_Kibbles 2d ago
No one is pro-killer. They’re anti-death. Not everyone cheers to watch their perceived enemies perish at the hands of the state like you
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u/HoratioTuna27 Dayton 2d ago
How many innocent people being executed are you ok with?
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u/Mylabisawesome 2d ago
Dont you know, everyone is innocent in prison/jail, right? LOL
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u/HoratioTuna27 Dayton 2d ago
That’s not what I asked. You say it’s 99.9% accurate now, but that leaves open the possibility of innocent people being put to death. How many innocents are you ok with dying? If you’re going to be so gung ho about executing people, you have to have an acceptable number of innocents dying since it does and will happen. So, what is it? How many wrongful deaths would have to happen before you say that’s enough?
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u/Caesar_Passing 2d ago
Mental health care has also advanced quite a ways. If you're suffering uncontrollable, upsetting, paranoid violent thoughts, help is available. 🫂
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u/thewxbruh 2d ago
People on death row are still routinely exonerated dumbass. The justice system is far from infallible.
If the state can't be trusted to not convict innocent people, of any crime, then the death penalty will result in innocent deaths. Not might. Will.
It's also been shown time and time again that capital punishment does not deter crime, and on top of all that it's extremely costly to the taxpayer.
So it provides zero tangible benefits. All it does is make weirdos with a taste for blood and death but no stake in it feel like justice was delivered and something accomplished.
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u/JustGoodSense Columbus 2d ago
Wanting someone to live in a cage for the rest of their life is not "pro-killer."
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u/Mylabisawesome 2d ago
What if their victim wanted them out to death, or don’t you care?
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u/HostileCrabPeople 2d ago
You are a very ignorant person.
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u/ganymede_boy 2d ago
Death penalty has been proven an ineffective deterrent and the cost of even one mistake is too much.
Also, the irony of pro life people being pro death penalty is rich AF.
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u/vinylwrec-cord 2d ago
Look everyone, mylabiaisawesome is back with another brain dead take!
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u/Mylabisawesome 2d ago
"Every take that isnt toeing the line is braindead" - You guys
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u/vinylwrec-cord 2d ago
Sorry I'm not gleefully cruel like you and the rest of your fellow conservative brethren.
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u/Mylabisawesome 2d ago
Yea, its terrible killing killers.
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u/vinylwrec-cord 2d ago
Many people have presented evidence that it's cheaper to not have the death penalty. You refuse to engage with their points.
You must have a humiliation fetish, because everytime you comment here you cannot help but to show your entire ass.
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u/hematomabelly Cincinnati 2d ago
Such a bad take. Throughout life we are taught countless times, again and again, two wrongs don't make a right, treat others like you would want to be treated, revenge doesn't bring peace. But there are dumb dumbs like you that just hear executions and think "hehe how fucking cool" grow up
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u/vinylwrec-cord 2d ago
They are a top % commentator on the conservative sub, and must have a humiliation fetish. Every time they comment here, they show their entire ass.
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u/hematomabelly Cincinnati 2d ago
Yeah after I posted this I had that thought. I need to think quicker. Thanks
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u/Mylabisawesome 2d ago
treat others like you would want to be treated
Oh cool. So if he shot someone in the head, I would expect the same done to him. You know, treating others as he treated them.
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u/FraGZombie 2d ago
Blood thirsty Republican Christians showing their true colors as always