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Still awaiting word Reports on Ohio's success with one-drug lethal injection protocol

By Douglas A. Berman

Ohio was scheduled to go forward with its first execution using its new on-drug protocol this morning at 10am.  But as this AP article notes, one final appeal pushed the scheduled execution time to 11am.  But now the noon hour approaches, and I still await a report that the execution was completed.  And now I need to head off-line (and I think it would be tacky for me to complain about the delay).  I suspect the AP article linked above will get updated, and I'll report on the reports from the execution chamber when I return on-line this afternoon. UPDATE:  Here is a segment of this Columbus Dispatch report on the execution itself: Ohio prisons director Terry Collins said there were "no problems whatsoever" with the new one-drug method. "The process worked as expected," he said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 08, 2009 (boomark / email).