DeWine calls for lawmakers to end death penalty or ask Ohio voters

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : His decision is largely based on two points: That the odds of a death penalty actually being carried out are low, and even if it is carried out, it is "guaranteed to take a long, long time.
39% : He said, "it is impossible to make the case" that the death penalty is a deterrent for heinous crimes.
28% : DeWine, who helped reinstate the death penalty in Ohio while serving as a state lawmaker in the 1980s, told reporters on Tuesday that his "moral justification" for his stance back then was that he believed the death penalty was a deterrent.
26% : " Bipartisan factions of the state legislature have attempted to get rid of the death penalty throughout DeWine's tenure, but it's never taken hold.
25% : Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine called on the state legislature to officially eliminate Ohio's death penalty after setting a seven-year de facto moratorium on executions during his administration.

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