Portage County’s prosecutor told DeWine: Enforce the death penalty

- Wendy DiAlesandro

Two area county prosecutors, one of them Portage County’s Connie Lewandowski, in August penned a letter to state officials affirming their support for the death penalty.

Ohio reinstated the death penalty in 1981, but has not executed anyone since 2018, Lewandowski and Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins stated in an Aug. 20 letter to Gov. Mike DeWine, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, Ohio Auditor Keith Faber and state Senate and House leaders.

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