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Ohio inmate claiming execution protocol violates federal drug law

By Douglas A. Berman

Providing more proof that no good capital punishment deed goes unpunished, this local article reports on how the next person due to be executed in Ohio is responding to the state's decision to adopt a (more humane?) one-drug execution protocol.  The article is headlined "Death-row inmate: Lethal injections violate federal drug law," and here are excerpts: An Ohio inmate scheduled to die April 20 is arguing that the state's use of lethal injection drugs violates federal prescription drug law. Death row prisoner Darryl Durr on Wednesday asked U.S. District Judge Michael Watson in Columbus to act quickly to hear Durr's claim that administering the drugs in executions is illegal. Durr's lawsuit, filed Monday, argues the use of the drugs violates the federal Controlled Substances and Food & Drug acts...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 08, 2010 (boomark / email).