Sixty-eight percent of Ohioans reported that the likelihood...

Sixty-eight percent of Ohioans reported that the likelihood of an innocent person being wrongly convicted and executed was either somewhat likely or very likely. This is an increase since the 1997 poll in which 46% reported that an innocent person might be wrongly convicted and executed. 57% of those polled support, as an alternative to the death penalty, a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for a minimum of 25 years and that the inmate be required to work in prison industry for money that would go to the victim's family. (Survey Research Center at Ohio State University, Press Release 11/19/99)