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lethal injection hearings in Ohio

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

The Washington Post has a major piece on the Ohio pretrial lethal injection litigation. This time WaPo focuses on Dr. Mark Heaths testimony: Heath, an assistant professor of anesthesiology at Columbia University, says it’s possible to perform lethal injection of prisoners in a humane manner, but that Ohio’s method falls below the standard for euthanizing household pets.. . . he major criticism of the three-drug execution procedure is that if the executioner administers too little anesthetic or makes mistakes in injecting it, the inmate could suffer excruciating pain from the other two drugs. Heath testified that the design of Ohio’s death house was problematic because it separates the inmate from the person administering the drugs in two separate rooms...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on April 07, 2008 (boomark / email).