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"Killer's death could be historic: State would hit new toll in era of lethal injections"

By Douglas A. Berman

The new story in my local Columbus Dispatch details the "historic" nature of Ohio's planned execution tomorrow of a defendant who murdered his girlfriend nearly two decades ago.  Here are the basic modern details, with a little Ohio execution history to boot: If Michael Benge is lethally injected as scheduled on Wednesday, Ohio will have executed the most prisoners in one year since 1949. Sixty-one years ago, 15 men were put to death in the state's electric chair, which is no longer used. In the modern era - since the state resumed capital punishment in 1999 -- the most executions in one year, until this year, was seven in 2004. The pace of executions has picked up in the past two years in Ohio. Another is scheduled for Nov. 16 (Sidney Cornwell of Mahoning County)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 05, 2010 (boomark / email).