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Ohio lethal injection

By cdw

A federal district court  in Ohio has ruled on one of that state’s lethal injection challenges in Cooey v. Strickland: This matter is before the Court upon remand for consideration of whether the Court should continue a previously granted stay of execution to intervening plaintiff Kenneth Biros in light of Baze v. Rees, 128 S. Ct. 1520 (2008).  For the reasons that follow, this Court finds that Biros is not entitled to a continued stay and VACATES the stay of execution prohibiting the State of Ohio and any person acting on its behalf from implementing an order for the execution of Kenneth Biros…. This is not to say that Biros or any of the various plaintiffs involved in this litigation are incapable of ultimately prevailing in this litigation...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on April 21, 2009 (boomark / email).