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.
Suit challenges Ohio law shielding execution drug makers
“…rather than permit public debate about the death penalty to continue its current course, which has become increasingly critical of the government’s actions, Ohio and certain other death penalty states have chosen to cut off the very information fueling that debate,” said Cleveland attorney Timothy F. Sweeney, whose firm filed the suit in U.S. District […]