OTSE is joined in the work to abolish Ohio's death penalty by Ohio organizations through our Moratorium Campaign.
As of October 2011, 130 Ohio organizations have endorsed a moratorium on executions including:
City of Cincinnati
City of Cleveland
City of Dayton
City of Oberlin
Village of Yellow Springs
Akron Area Association of Churches
Akron Beacon Journal
Akron Dominican Sisters, Leadership Council
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Cincinnati Working Group
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio (Cleveland)
American Friends Service Committee, Ohio Criminal Justice Program Committee (Dayton)
American Poets Opposed to Executions
Amnesty International, Group 70 (Cleveland)
Amnesty International, Group 86 (Cincinnati)
Anawim Community (Cincinnati)
Annunciation Parish Community (Cleveland)
Ascension of our Lord Catholic Church (Cleveland)
Audio Restoration Service (Cleveland)
Barberton-Norton Peace Studies Group (Akron)
Byzantine Nuns (St. Clare)
Canton Repository
Cathedral of St. John, Social Justice Committee (Cleveland)
Catholic Conference of Ohio
Catholic Action Commission of Loraine County
Catholic Commission (Akron)
Cincinnati Mennonite Fellowship
Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants (CURE), Ohio (Columbus)
Cleveland Coalition Against the Death Penalty (Cleveland)
Cleveland Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
Commission on Catholic Community Action (Cleveland)
Community Council of Dayton (Dayton)
Congregation of Divine Providence (Cincinnati)
Conventional Franciscan Commission on Justice, Peace, and the Safeguarding of Creation: Province of Our Lady of Consolation (Carey)
Consistory of Grace United Church of Christ of Loyal Oak (Norton)
Cuyahoga County Bar Association (Cleveland)
Cuyahoga Green Party
Dominican Sisters of Hope (Cincinnati)
Dominican Sisters, St. Mary of the Springs (Columbus)
Faith Community Alliance of Greater Cincinnati (Cincinnati)
Families That Matter (Cincinnati)
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne, Indiana)
Franciscan Friars, Province of St. John the Baptist, JPIC Office (Cincinnati)
Franciscan Friars, Province of St. John the Baptist, Provincial Council (Cincinnati)
Grace United Methodist Church (Dayton)
Independent Chemical Inc. (Cleveland)
Independent Publishers Inc (Cleveland)
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) General Defense Committee (Cincinnati)
Innocent Inmates Association of Ohio Inc.
Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center (Cincinnati)
Interfaith Coalition to Stop Execution
Interfaith Justice and Peace Center (Toledo)
IPI Publishers (Cleveland)
Justice Watch (Cincinnati)
Layfayette Christian Fellowship (West Lafayette)
League of Women Voters of Ohio
Loraine County Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry, Social Justice Advocacy Task Force
Marianist Social Action Collaborative
Mennonite Church USA, Ohio Conference
Missionaries of the Precious Blood (Dayton)
Mount Auburn Presbyterian (Cincinnati)
MUSE, Cincinnati's Women's Choir
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Ohio Conference of Branches
National Lawyers Guild, Cleveland Chapter
National Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation (Carey)
New Life United Methodist Church (Columbus)
Northwest Ohio Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) (Bluffton)
Ohio Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (Cincinnati)
Ohio Council of Churches
Ohio Sort Inc. (Berea)
Ohioans to Stop Executions
Pax Christi, Cleveland West
Pax Christi, Tiffin Area
Peace Community Church of Oberlin (Oberlin)
The Post, Ohio University Student Paper (Athens)
Presbyterian Church (USA), Presbytery of Cincinnati, Social Justice and Peacemaking Committee (Cincinnati)
Prison Policy Initiative (Cincinnati)
Religious Society of Friends, Cincinnati Friends Meeting
Religious Society of Friends, Cleveland Meeting
Religious Society of Friends, Community Friends Meeting (Cincinnati)
Religious Society of Friends, Dayton Monthly Meeting
Religious Society of Friends, Oxford Friends Meeting
Restorative Justice and Renaissance Group
Restorative Justice Mission Group of Cleveland (Cleveland)
Roman Catholic Diocese of Cincinnati (Cincinnati)
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Catholic Social Action Commission (Cincinnati)
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cleveland, Catholic Commission on Community Action (Cleveland)
Sacred Heart Church, Peace and Justice Committee (Oberlin)
Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati (Mount St. Joseph)
Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, Leadership Council (Mount St. Joseph)
Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine, Social Concerns Committee (Richfield)
Sisters of Mercy, Regional Community of Cincinnati
Sister of Notre Dame de Namur, Justice and Peace Committee (Cincinnati)
Sisters of Notre Dame of Toledo
Sisters of St. Francis of Sylvania
Sisters of St. Francis, Tiffin
Sisters of the Good Shepherd, Cincinnati Province, Leadership Team
Sisters of the Holy Cross (Cincinnati)
Sisters of the Humility of Mary, Leadership Team (Cleveland)
Sisters of the Precious Blood, Community Council (Dayton)
St. Anthony Catholic Church (Madisonville)
St. Francis/St. Joseph Catholic Worker House (Cincinnati)
St. Ignatius Peace and Justice Committee (Cincinnati)
St. James the Less Catholic Church (Columbus)
St. Johns Unitarian Universalist Church of Cincinnati
St. Joseph Catholic Church (Strongsville)
St. Luke Catholic Church (Beavercreek)
St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church (Cleveland)
Summit Mennonite Church (Barberton)
Taylor Products
Toledo Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Unitarian Universalist Church of Kent
United Church of Christ, Central Southeast Association (Columbus)
United Church of Christ, Eastern Ohio Association, Association Council (Canton)
United Church of Christ, Ohio Conference
United Church of Christ National Office (Cleveland)
United Church of Christ, Western Reserve Association (Cleveland)
United Methodist Church, West Ohio Conference (Columbus)
Ursuline Sisters of Youngstown, Leadership Team
Ursulines of Cincinnati
Ursulines of Cleveland
Vandalia United Methodist Church, Administrative Board (Vandalia)
Vestry of Trinity Cathedral (Cleveland)
Women for Racial and Economic Equality
Women of Wonder (Cincinnati)
Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice
Women's International League For Peace and Freedom
Zion Mennonite Church (Archbold)
Newest moratorium endorser: The Canton Repository
A moratorium temporarily stops executions from taking place. It is a “time out,” which is neither a rejection nor an approval of the death penalty and which would allow Ohio’s death penalty system to be studied.
Many death penalty supporters and opponents agree that death sentences are not administered fairly and that the system needs to be examined. Until the justice system is fair and nondiscriminatory, we must have a moratorium to ensure that innocent people are not put to death in Ohio. OTSE is convinced that careful review of the death penalty system will reveal that capital punishment cannot be administered in an unbiased manner that precludes the possibility of executing innocent persons.