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Family of executed Ohio inmate drops lawsuit
“They wanted to be assured that nobody else would be subjected to the same drugs that their father was, subjected to in the way that he died,” he said. “By bringing the suffering to light, the state of Ohio has clearly changed their protocol.”
Ohio will not carry out executions in 2015
Ohio, like many other death-penalty states, has struggled in recent years to find reliable sources of lethal-injection drugs, as European pharmaceutical companies have stopped sales on moral and legal grounds.
Editorial: Ohio’s death-penalty secrecy is wrong and must not be allowed to take effect
This editorial board has long opposed the death penalty on moral, practical and fairness grounds. If secrecy is the only way the state believes it can carry out the death penalty, then surely it is time to eliminate the death penalty altogether.
Death Row inmates want Ohio’s new shield law halted
Four Death Row inmates who are suing Ohio officials over a new state law that shields the names of companies providing lethal-injection drugs want a federal court to prevent the law from taking effect in March.
The Great Ohio Death Drug Mystery
If Ohio has indeed found sodium thiopental — which is widely known to be difficult to come by — it raises the possibility that the state has found an unorthodox method of procurement, calling to mind the days when prison officials made handoffs of execution drugs and paid unregulated compounding pharmacies in cash.
Ohio to discard controversial two-drug cocktail from use in executions
“However, the state, which has seen four executions go horribly wrong, is about to issue its sixth execution protocol in five years. Ohio needs to take a comprehensive look at its death penalty system and execution process, something the state hasn’t done since it re-implemented the death penalty in 1981,” Young said.
Death penalty dying from dysfunction
Americans’ growing ambivalence towards the death penalty may also be driven in part by a lingering concerns over the wrongful conviction of innocent men and women, like Wiley Bridgeman and Ricky Jackson who spent 39 years in prison…
Deathly Silence – Toledo Blade Editorial
Governor Kasich signed an egregious bill last month that shields the identities of lethal-injection drug manufacturers. Among other things, the new law prevents the public from evaluating how drugs from pharmacies used by Ohio are working in other states.