Ohio law students call for moratorium on executions

A group of law students is calling on Ohio's governor to declare a moratorium on executions.

They say more than 1/2 of the Ohio death penalty cases they reviewed don't meet death penalty criteria developed by a review panel in Illinois.

Illinois and Ohio have different standards for jurors to use in considering whether to recommend that someone be put to death.

Illinois Governor George Ryan had announced -- just before leaving office -- that he had commuted the sentences of that state's entire death row.

Students from the University of Cincinnati examined 173 of Ohio's 204 inmates on death row, and determined 88 should not be put to death under the guidelines developed in Illinois.

 The students plan to present their findings at a news conference today.

 One Ohio prosecutor calls the results of the study predictable, and calls what happened in Illinois a "miscarriage of justice."