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.
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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.
Death Row inmates want Ohio’s new shield law halted
Four Death Row inmates who are suing Ohio officials over a new state law that shields the names of companies providing lethal-injection drugs want a federal court to prevent the law from taking effect in March.