Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> Sentencing Law and Policy

Criminal Law

: Sentencing Law and Policy

Ohio completes third successful one-drug lethal injection

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this local Columbus Dispatch story, which is headlined "Convenience-store killer executed by lethal injection," the Buckeye state has now completed three "uneventful" executions using its new one-drug execution protocol.  Here is how the article starts: After 16 years of litigation capped by a last-minute flurry of appeals in four courts, Mark Brown was executed this morning for gunning down a Youngstown store owner and an employee in Youngstown market. Brown, 37, was declared dead at 10:49 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville. Brown had no last words.  He was the third person put to death in the nation using Ohio's one-drug lethal injection process.  The chemical started flowing at 10:40 a.m. At 10:41 Brown closed his eyes and yawned...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 04, 2010 (boomark / email).