Justice Elena Kagan contended that the way states carry out most executions amounts to having prisoners “burned alive from the inside.”
Editorial: Pharmacists association’s policy yet another strike against death penalty
Instead of adopting convoluted and unmerited laws to shield the identity of medical professionals who help with executions, Ohio should get rid of the death penalty altogether, as this editorial board long has advocated.
Ohio’s last execution drugs cost $10.60; How much will the state have to pay now?
It’s still unclear whether state officials will be able to find a compounding pharmacy willing to sell them pentobarbital or sodium thiopental.