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Is Oklahoma About to Execute an Innocent Man?
Innocence Project founder Barry Scheck says evidence of guilt in Glossip case too “tenuous” to put man to death.
Ohio Supreme Court sets 2017 execution date for Gary Otte
The decision makes Otte the 24th inmate on death row with an execution date. The prison system is scheduled to resume executions in January but hasn’t been able to obtain new supplies of lethal injection drugs.
Ohio attempting to illegally procure execution drugs, says FDA
Ohio Public Defender Tim Young criticized importing pharmaceuticals as “an obviously illegal attempt to obtain drugs in a way that is banned for every other American. “This certainly supports the idea they are at the end of the available options for lethal injection drugs,” Young said.
Death penalty ruling may pave way for national abolitionists
A sweeping decision this week by the Connecticut Supreme Court found the death penalty no longer meets society’s evolving standards of decency…
Bishops’ Chairmen Renew Push To End Death Penalty, Cite Progress of Last Decade
“Our faith tradition offers a unique perspective on crime and punishment , one grounded in mercy and healing, not punishment for its own sake.”
Democratic, GOP lawmakers propose ending Ohio death penalty
Two Ohio lawmakers, one Democrat and one Republican, are teaming up in the latest attempt to eliminate capital punishment in the state.
U.S. appeals court stays Ohio death row inmate’s potential execution
Moore admonished the lower court for relying on intelligence tests that are imprecise and said the childhood IQ score “was directly relevant to the obviously extremely important issue of whether Williams should live or die based on his intellectual functioning.”
Ohio is having trouble finding execution drugs, state official says
State legislators passed an execution secrecy law late last year in hopes that it would persuade small-scale drug manufacturers called compounding pharmacies to sell Ohio sodium thiopental or pentobarbital. But the American Pharmacists Association, as well as many compounding pharmacists in Ohio, have voiced reluctance to make and sell execution drugs.