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…
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Fairness of death penalty challenged
Citing data, an Ohio Supreme Court execution task force member challenged the fundamental fairness of the way the death penalty in Ohio is applied…
Sen. Edna Brown: Don’t fix capital punishment, end it.
“History and research tell us that capital punishment is enormously expensive and wasteful, that capital punishment does not reduce or deter violent crime, that capital punishment is arbitrarily applied, and that there is always the possibility of executing an innocent person who has been wrongfully convicted.”