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Ohio Changes Execution Procedure in Advance of Scheduled Execution

By Steve Hall

AP reports, "Ohio speeds atty access for condemned."  It's written by Andrew Welsh-Huggins and is via Forbes. Ohio is changing its process for placing intravenous needles in the arms of condemned inmates to give them quicker access to attorneys in case something goes wrong. The change in the state's execution procedure settles part of a federal lawsuit that had challenged how Ohio puts inmates to death. It will take effect with Thursday's scheduled execution of a Toledo store owner's killer. Ohio prisons spokesman Carlo LoParo tells The Associated Press that the process for inserting needles in an inmate's arm will be moved from a holding cell into the death chamber itself at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 09, 2011 (boomark / email).