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Public defender complaining about increased pace of Ohio executions

By Douglas A. Berman

This new item from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, which is titled "Executions are coming too fast, Ohio Public Defender Tim Young says," spotlights some of the complains and concerns emerging as Ohio becomes the north's Texas: The state of Ohio is lining up death-row inmates for execution at a feverish pace not seen here since capital punishment was reinstated a decade ago. Having already carried out three executions since June, the state has scheduled at least one lethal injection every month through the end of the year. That could mean that by year's end, Ohio will have executed eight men in the final seven months of 2009. The previous high was seven in all of 2004. They are coming too fast, argues Ohio Public Defender Tim Young, who worries that the burdens on state officials to carry out the tasks in rapid-fire succession could lead to careless mistakes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 10, 2009 (boomark / email).