Opponents of the death penalty say they are concerned about a newly proposed abortion ban that could charge a woman who gets an abortion and a doctor who provides it with a capital crime. It would make abortion punishable by life in prison without the possibility of parole or death.
Death Penalty Action鈥檚 Abe Bonowitz opposes , which creates aggravated abortion murder as a new capital crime. He says putting someone to death for aborting a fetus is extreme.
鈥淚t鈥檚 a ridiculous and shameful way to stir up the pot," Bonowitz says.
Bonowitz questions the timing since a shows support for the death penalty is dropping, even among Republicans. Ohio鈥檚 death penalty has been put on hold while the state looks for a new lethal injection method.
