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The state-specific realities of post-Baze execution timelines

By Douglas A. Berman

This new local AP article from Ohio highlights that each death penalty state is going to move at its own pace concerning when and how to try to move forward with lethal injection executions after Baze.  Here are some excerpts from the piece: Ohio officials have been less swift and less aggressive than leaders from some other states at moving to restart executions after a U.S. Supreme Court decision ended a seven-month national pause to killing inmates. Ohio, which not long ago had one of the nation's busiest death chambers, is led by a governor who has said he is not comfortable with the death penalty and top law enforcement officer who has said he thinks "we can do better" in applying it.  Gov. Ted Strickland has the power to cancel or delay death sentences, and Attorney General Marc Dann's office fights against death row inmates' appeals...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 28, 2008 (boomark / email).