Miscellaneous

Excitement in Ohio: No Lethal Injection, Rules Judge

By Anne Skove, Esq.

We might bore people to death. We might stun people into an early grave. But in Ohio, we don't use the 3-drug cocktail recently upheld by the SCOTUS.

So says a Lorain County Court of Common Pleas judge (more proof that the law trickles up).

The SCOTUS case trickled up from Kentucky. Ohio's procedure is reportedly similar. The difference? Ohio law requires painlessness.

See Judge: Ohio Must Change Lethal Injection Drugs, M.R. Kropko, Julie Carr Smith, Joe Milicia, and Thomas J. Sheeran, AP/Salon (June 10, 2008).

Full post as published by court-o-rama.org on June 10, 2008 (boomark / email).