“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.