Rejecting Eighth Amendment challenges to the drug cocktail Ohio uses to give the death penalty, a federal judge moved the state one step closer Wednesday to resuming lethal injections.
Death Penalty Foes Rally To Stop Ohio’s First Execution In More Than Three Years
Ohio is set to execute an Akron man inmate later this month. If it happens, it will be the first execution in the state in three-and-a half years. And death penalty opponents are trying to stop it.
Dale Johnston: Wrongful convictions make death penalty too risky
Are any of the 27 who are scheduled to be executed innocent? I don’t know. You don’t know. The governor doesn’t know. That’s the problem.
– Dale Johnston, Ohio Death Row Exoneree