Death Penalty in ohio


Is this the movie that burt Reynolds states "No state has the death penalty for speeding except maybe Ohio"?

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is't actually spoken by the race director, brock yates.

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Ohio State Troopers have always been pretty tough, but this may have been a reference to New Rome, Ohio: (from Wikipedia)

New Rome police had systematically taken advantage of the village's sudden drop (from 45 mph (72 km/h) to 35 mph (56 km/h)) in the posted speed limit along the busy thoroughfare of West Broad Street to pull over thousands of motorists, raising nearly $400,000 gross annually from speeding tickets, but primarily vehicle citations, including trivial offenses such as dusty taillights and improperly tinted windows. Nearly all of this money was funneled back into the police force, which almost exclusively dealt with traffic violations and so essentially existed to fund itself. The 60-resident village had as many as 14 policemen (all part-time), with the Village Council wanting more.[3]

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