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Time to end death penalty in Ohio
Regardless of how one feels theoretically about the death penalty, justice demands we put an end to the practice.
American Bar Association urges “open and transparent” executions
The ABA, with nearly 400,000 members, said states should divulge “all steps in preparation for, during, and after an execution,the qualifications and background of execution team members, and details about any drugs to be used, including the names, manufacturers or suppliers, doses, expiration date(s), and testing results concerning use of the drugs.”
Toledo Blade Editorial: Responsible Reschedule
Lethal injections are mired in legal, medical, and logistical uncertainties; Kasich is right to pause Ohio executions.
Family of executed Ohio inmate drops lawsuit
“They wanted to be assured that nobody else would be subjected to the same drugs that their father was, subjected to in the way that he died,” he said. “By bringing the suffering to light, the state of Ohio has clearly changed their protocol.”
Ohio will not carry out executions in 2015
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.
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.
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.