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Filings reveal details about Ohio executioners

By The Associated PressA pair of court filings Friday challenging Ohio's execution process provided additional details about the state's executioners, whose names are not released by the state. The team members gave anonymous court depositions in October that are sealed and not available for public review. The team members:-Team Member No. 9 is a phlebotomist employed by the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction who draws blood as part of her daily work and has been on the execution team for several years.-Team Member No. 10 is responsible, along with the prisons director and the warden at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, for screening potential execution team members, for establishing the policies, practices, customs and procedures for adding a member to the execution team, and for making the decision to have a person join the execution team...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on June 28, 2010 (boomark / email).