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The Xenia Gazette carries the editorial, "Death by Cocktail." Judge James Burge of the Lorain County Common Pleas Court argued carefully, thoughtfully and bravely in ordering Ohio to halt its method of lethal injection in the execution of condemned prisoners. The judge highlighted the relevant provision of state law, 'a death sentence shall be executed by causing the application to the person . . . of a lethal injection of a drug or combination of drugs of sufficient dosage to quickly and painlessly cause death.'The key words are 'quickly and painlessly.' The U.S. Supreme Court didn't face such a standard in its April ruling (Baze v. Rees) upholding the method of lethal injection used in Kentucky and other states, including Ohio. And: How likely is such an error? Burge cited the possibilities, including 'tubing may leak' or 'the vein injected may perforate...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 17, 2008 (boomark / email).