Ohioans to Stop Executions

Lethal injections are mired in legal, medical, and logistical uncertainties; Kasich is right to pause Ohio executions.

“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, 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.