{"id":99618,"date":"2026-06-23T16:24:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=99618"},"modified":"2026-06-23T16:24:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:24:53","slug":"ohio-very-close-to-repealing-death-penalty-leading-advocate-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/06_23_2026\/ohio-very-close-to-repealing-death-penalty-leading-advocate-says","title":{"rendered":"Ohio &#8216;Very Close&#8217; to Repealing Death Penalty, Leading Advocate Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Renee Heberle, a professor of political science and co-director of the Law and Social Thought Program, discusses Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine&#8217;s ability to commute sentences and influence lawmakers and public opinion.<\/p>\n<p>READ: <a title=\"Original URL:\nhttps:\/\/www.toledoblade.com\/local\/politics\/2026\/06\/18\/ohio-very-close-repealing-death-penalty-leading-advocate-says\/stories\/20260618091\n\nClick to follow link.\" href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.toledoblade.com%2Flocal%2Fpolitics%2F2026%2F06%2F18%2Fohio-very-close-repealing-death-penalty-leading-advocate-says%2Fstories%2F20260618091&amp;data=05%7C02%7CJonathan.Monk%40UToledo.Edu%7C3748c47c201b48e94d5c08ded13c2a60%7C1d6b1707baa94a3da8f8deabfb3d467b%7C0%7C0%7C639178254335385503%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=ywQBtILQkafCibPfTQg0UXVIjjCDfphPF0rf%2Fng%2BKqM%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-outlook-id=\"65aacfb0-9b29-42fa-b535-c24fe4a85ed1\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 62, 126)\"><b><u>Ohio &#8216;Very Close&#8217; to Repealing Death Penalty, Leading Advocate Says<\/u><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Renee Heberle, a professor of political science and co-director of the Law and Social Thought Program, discusses Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine&#8217;s ability to commute sentences and influence lawmakers and public opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[81],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99619,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99618\/revisions\/99619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}