3 condemned Ohio inmates ask high court to delay executions

Three condemned Ohio killers have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to delay their executions. The request to Justice Elena Kagan comes as the inmates continue to challenge the state’s new lethal injection method. Kagan handles such appeals for Ohio.

Ohio moves forward with plans to execute Ronald Phillips in one week

Ohio is set to execute 43-year-old #Ronald Phillips on July 26. He is scheduled for the state’s first execution since January 16, 2014, when it took 26 minutes to execute Dennis McQuire as he struggled for life – gasping, seizing, and snorting.

Execution policy released

As Ohio plans for the first execution in more than three years, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections (ODRC) has released their execution policy.

Judge Rejects Last-Ditch Effort to Block Ohio Executions

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

Ohio gets ready to execute

If Ohio goes forward, it will do so without implementing the most substantial recommendations of an impressive Ohio Supreme Court task force on improving capital punishment.

Ohio preparing for 1st execution in more than three years

Ohio says it’s following a mandatory checklist for putting inmates to death as it prepares for the state’s first execution in more than three years. Items on that checklist include determining that the state has enough lethal drugs for the execution, evaluating the inmate’s mental health and checking his veins for the insertion of IVs.