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Ohio to discard controversial two-drug cocktail from use in executions
“However, the state, which has seen four executions go horribly wrong, is about to issue its sixth execution protocol in five years. Ohio needs to take a comprehensive look at its death penalty system and execution process, something the state hasn’t done since it re-implemented the death penalty in 1981,” Young said.
Death penalty dying from dysfunction
Americans’ growing ambivalence towards the death penalty may also be driven in part by a lingering concerns over the wrongful conviction of innocent men and women, like Wiley Bridgeman and Ricky Jackson who spent 39 years in prison…
Deathly Silence – Toledo Blade Editorial
Governor Kasich signed an egregious bill last month that shields the identities of lethal-injection drug manufacturers. Among other things, the new law prevents the public from evaluating how drugs from pharmacies used by Ohio are working in other states.
Suit challenges Ohio law shielding execution drug makers
“…rather than permit public debate about the death penalty to continue its current course, which has become increasingly critical of the government’s actions, Ohio and certain other death penalty states have chosen to cut off the very information fueling that debate,” said Cleveland attorney Timothy F. Sweeney, whose firm filed the suit in U.S. District […]
Executions and Death Sentences Continue to Fall : DPIC 2014 Year End Report
“The relevancy of the death penalty in our criminal justice system is seriously in question when 43 out of our 50 states do not apply the ultimate sanction,” said Richard Dieter, DPIC’s Executive Director and the author of the report.
Secrecy for lethal injections nears Ohio legislature’s OK
Kevin Werner, executive director of Ohioans to Stop Executions, said there is no evidence that pharmacists have been threatened or harassed. “The allegations of harassment by anti-death-penalty advocates toward pharmacists and others involved in the execution process are not true.”
Plain-Dealer Editorial: Watered-down death penalty bill still not acceptable
It’s unconscionable for Ohio’s elected officials to disregard transparency and medical ethics in order to continue executing death-row inmates.
Prosecutors Office Clears Way for Three Recently Exonerated Men to Pursue Civil Process After Wrongful Incarceration
And yesterday, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty gave the trio more good news, absolving all three of the crime and noting that his office would not oppose their efforts to seek restitution from the state of Ohio.