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.
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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.
The Great Ohio Death Drug Mystery
If Ohio has indeed found sodium thiopental — which is widely known to be difficult to come by — it raises the possibility that the state has found an unorthodox method of procurement, calling to mind the days when prison officials made handoffs of execution drugs and paid unregulated compounding pharmacies in cash.