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"Ohio inmate to get 1-drug, slower, execution"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this new AP report noting that Ohio is getting pretty close to trying out its new lethal injection protocol.  Here are some excerpts: Condemned killer Kenneth Biros could become the first person in the country put to death with a single dose of an intravenous anesthetic instead of the usual ? and faster-acting ? three-drug process if his execution proceeds Tuesday. The execution could propel other states to eventually consider the switch, which proponents say ends arguments over unnecessary suffering during injection.  California and Tennessee previously considered then rejected the one-drug approach. Though the untested method has never been used on an inmate in the United States, one difference is clear: Biros will likely die more slowly than inmates put to death with the three-drug method, which includes a drug that stops the heart...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 06, 2009 (boomark / email).