We’re already spending enormous resources on executing offenders—longer and more expensive trials, and usually 15-20 years in post-conviction proceedings. One might think the sudden unavailability of execution drugs would give authorities cause to re-think the death penalty…
Death penalty changes debated in Springfield
While the recommendations wouldn’t eliminate the death penalty in Ohio, the panelists talked about ways the reforms could keep innocent people off death row. Springfield was one of several Ohio stops on the forum tour…
Ohio prosecutors want death penalty drug info shielded
Shielding information about drugs would set a dangerous precedent, according to the Ohio chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. “The public, the courts and condemned inmates have to feel confident knowing what is used in executions so that they will happen in a humane way,” said ACLU spokesman Mike Brickner…