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Ohio Court Promises More Time Between Executions

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That's the title of an AP report, via the Coshocton Tribune, written by Andrew Welsh-Huggins.  LINKThe Ohio Supreme Court said Thursday it will schedule future executions at least three weeks apart, an announcement made as the state prepares to put two men to death next month and as many as four more by year's end.The court made the change Thursday in a decision denying Marvallous Keene's request to delay his July 21 execution for killing five people in a 1992 rampage in Dayton.The court didn't explain its decision, but officials involved in executions have tried recently to avoid too many dates at once.Last year, after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of lethal injection, the Ohio Attorney General's Office asked prosecutors to coordinate how they filed their requests for execution dates for fear of swamping the state Supreme Court...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 12, 2009 (boomark / email).