“…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 […]
Executions and Death Sentences Continue to Fall : DPIC 2014 Year End Report
“The relevancy of the death penalty in our criminal justice system is seriously in question when 43 out of our 50 states do not apply the ultimate sanction,” said Richard Dieter, DPIC’s Executive Director and the author of the report.
Secrecy for lethal injections nears Ohio legislature’s OK
Kevin Werner, executive director of Ohioans to Stop Executions, said there is no evidence that pharmacists have been threatened or harassed. “The allegations of harassment by anti-death-penalty advocates toward pharmacists and others involved in the execution process are not true.”