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Ohio Death Penalty Information

News and information related to the death penalty in Ohio and, to a lesser extent, throughout the nation.

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Last Entry: October 05, 2007 at 09:01:39

Time for ODPI to check out:

Posted on October 05, 2007
Time for ODPI to check out: Due to a growing inability to maintain this blog in a consistent manner, ODPI is hereby discontinued. While it's extremely difficult to depart with many promising new developments happening here, a pretty strong intuition says this is exactly the right time for me personally to step aside from the Ohio abolition milieu...

More on US Supeme Court ruling

Posted on September 25, 2007
More on US Supeme Court ruling to consider constitutionality of lethal injection: Robert Barnes has coverage for the Washington Post here. David Stout has this article in the New York Times. Jim Malone has this coverage for Voice of America...

US Supreme Court Agrees to Address Constitutionality of Kentucky Lethal Injection Protocol

Posted on September 25, 2007
The U.S. Supreme Court today agreed to hear the Kentucky case of Baze v. Rees, which challenges the constitutionality of Kentucky's standard 3-drug lethal injection protocol. This has potentially huge ramifications. Although the Supreme Court ruled last term that death row inmates have the right to challenge the constitutionality of methods of execution, this will be the first occasion for the court to actually consider whether lethal injection as practiced by most states violates the 8th Amendment ban on "cruel and unusual punishment...

More on ABA Ohio Death Penalty

Posted on September 25, 2007
More on ABA Ohio Death Penalty Assessment Report: Reginald Fields has this article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, entitled "ABA faults Ohio's death penalty system, urges moratorium; ABA asks Gov. Strickland to suspend executions pending review...

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More media coverage of ABA Ohio

Posted on September 24, 2007
More media coverage of ABA Ohio Death Penalty Assessment Report released today: Jeff Coryell has this post on the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Wide Open blog, entitled "ABA Death Penalty Assessment Team Calls for Suspension of Executions in Ohio...

ABA Report Finds Numerous Serious Flaws In Ohio's Capital Punishment System / Calls for Governor to Declare Moratorium Pending Death Penalty Study

Posted on September 24, 2007
As part of the American Bar Association's series of comprehensive studies of several states' death penalty systems, the ABA's Ohio Death Penalty Assessment Report was released today, finding numerous serious flaws in the implementation of Ohio's system of capital punishment - and calling on Governor Strickland to halt executions pending the outcome of a study to determine if the system can be corrected...

Stand Up For An End To Executions Rally, Wednesday, Sept. 26, in Columbus

Posted on September 24, 2007
Full information on this Wednesday's Columbus rally and day of action, including schedule, sign-up information, flyers, maps and directions, is on the Ohio ACLU website here.From Ohio ACLU website: STAND UP for an END TO EXECUTIONS Wednesday, September 26, 2007, Columbus, Ohio Download flyers for this event here and here...

Elvis Tribute Show coming up on

Posted on September 24, 2007
Elvis Tribute Show coming up on Saturday: As noted here in the Cincinnati Enquirer, the Northern Kentucky Saddle Club's 6th Annual Elvis Tribute Show takes place this Saturday. Excerpt:The Northern Kentucky Saddle Club will hold its sixth annual Elvis Tribute Show 8 p...

Posts continue to be limited due

Posted on September 22, 2007
Posts continue to be limited due to poor remote internet connectivity. Hope to be back on a regular connection on Monday.

John Paul Stevens: "The Dissenter":

Posted on September 22, 2007
John Paul Stevens: "The Dissenter": George Washington University Law Professor Jeffrey Rosen has this profile piece on US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens in the New York Times. Excerpt:The last Supreme Court term, which ended in June, was the stormiest in recent memory, with more 5-to-4 decisions split along ideological lines than at any time in the court?s history...

More on Kenny Richey effort to

Posted on September 22, 2007
More on Kenny Richey effort to obtain retrial change of venue: Greg Sowinski has this article in the Lima News, entitled "Richey wants trial outside Putnam County."Excerpt: Kenneth Richey wants to go to trial so the world can see the evidence against him...

US district court judge rules new

Posted on September 20, 2007
US district court judge rules new Tennessee lethal injection protocol unconstitutional: Sheila Burke has this story in the Nashville Tennessean, entitled "Judge halts executions by injection; 'unnecessary pain' risk noted in ruling." Theo Emery has this article in the New York Times, entitled "U...

More on Richey removal from death

Posted on September 20, 2007
More on Richey removal from death row: The UK Scotsman has this story, entitled "My first days off death row have given me a new taste for freedom in Scotland."Excerpt: ...Ken Parsigian, his lawyer, will apply for bail next week. It is unclear whether that will result in his freedom; Richey has no money to make bail even if it is granted, though his brother Stephen - who lives locally - has offered his house as collateral...

Ted Strickland: No soul man:

Posted on September 18, 2007
Ted Strickland: No soul man: Ted Strickland sold his soul to become governor of Ohio. He'll eagerly resell it - in the form of signing off on many more executions in late 2007 and 2008 - to further his political agenda in other areas, particularly if he thinks it will enhance his '08 vice-presidential prospects...

Ohio Supreme Court oral arguments

Posted on September 18, 2007
Ohio Supreme Court oral arguments Wednesday in Roland Davis case: As noted in this oral argument preview on the Ohio Supreme Court website, oral arguments will be heard Wednesday in the direct appeal of Ohio death row inmate Roland T. Davis. You can link to live streaming video of the arguments beginning at 9:00 AM on Wednesday here or here, or view an archived recording later at this link.

More on Kenny Richey move from

Posted on September 18, 2007
More on Kenny Richey move from Ohio death row: BBC News has this story, entitled "British man moved off death row." The UK Telegraph has this article, entitled "Kenny Richey moved off death row." The Scotsman.com has this article, entitled "Richey leaves Death Row 'in good spirits...

Kenny Richey moved off Ohio's death row

Posted on September 17, 2007
Kenny Richey was transferred from death row at the Ohio State Penitentiary to the Putnam County jail today. AP report is here. Excerpt:A U.S.-British citizen whose death sentence was tossed out by a federal appeals court has been moved from Ohio's death row to a jail in the county where he was convicted two decades ago...

Posts will resume on Tuesday.

Posted on September 17, 2007
Posts will resume on Tuesday.

Ohio Parole Board recommends against

Posted on September 15, 2007
Ohio Parole Board recommends against clemency for Romell Broom: The Ohio Parole Board recommended unanimously yesterday that Governor Strickland not grant clemency to death row inmate Romell Broom. Parole Board report is here (16-page pdf)...

Kenny Richey scheduled to be moved

Posted on September 14, 2007
Kenny Richey scheduled to be moved off Ohio death row on Monday: The Edinburgh Evening News has this coverage. Excerpt:Death Row Scot Kenny Richey is set to be moved from his Death Row prison for the first time in 20 years on Monday. Edinburgh-born Richey, 43, will be moved to the low-security Putnam County jail in Ohio ahead of a planned retrial of his case...

Daryl Holton electrocution burns

Posted on September 13, 2007
Daryl Holton electrocution burns called "normal": Sheila Burke has this article in the Nashville Tennessean, entitled "Minor burns during execution called normal," with autopsy results and other follow-up to Wednesday's execution by electrocution of Daryl Holton in Tennessee...

Capital punishment as a technical

Posted on September 12, 2007
Capital punishment as a technical problem: Susan Lehman had this article in the February, 1990, Atlantic Monthly, entitled "A Matter of Engineering: Capital Punishment as a Technical Problem," with a profile of electric-chair (and lethal injection) expert Fred Leuchter

Five additional plaintiffs granted inclusion in Ohio lethal injection challenge lawsuit

Posted on September 12, 2007
US District Court Judge Gregory Frost today granted inclusion of five additional Ohio death row inmates to the Cooey v. Taft lawsuit challenging Ohio's lethal injection protocol. Those granted inclusion by today's order are Grady Brinkley, Marvin Johnson, Daniel Wilson, James Conway and Darryl Durr...

Putnam County Common Pleas Court

Posted on September 12, 2007
Putnam County Common Pleas Court Judge Randall Basinger to step aside for Kenny Richey retrial: AP notes in this article that Putnam County Common Pleas Court Judge Randall Basinger - the prosecutor at Richey's original trial - has asked the Ohio Supreme Court to appoint another judge to preside over Richey's retrial...

Trumbull County Judge again denies

Posted on September 12, 2007
Trumbull County Judge again denies mental retardation hearing for Andre Williams: Ed Runyan has this confusing article in the Youngstown Vindicator, entitled "Killer isn't retarded, Trumbull judge rules," noting Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Judge W...

Daryl Holton execution:

Posted on September 12, 2007
Daryl Holton execution: Sheila Burke has this article for the Nashville Tennessean, entitled "State executes child killer Holton. Anahad O'Connor has this coverage for the New York Times, entitled "Murdered executed in Tennessee...

Tennessee prepares to electrocute

Posted on September 11, 2007
Tennessee prepares to electrocute Daryl Holton despite chair designer's warning that new electrocution procedure is flawed: Erik Schelzig has this coverage for AP, entitled "Chair Tested for Planned Tenn. Execution." WKRN-TV in Nashville has an updated AP report and brief video here...

William Garner conviction and death sentence reversed by US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals

Posted on September 11, 2007
A three-judge panel (Moore, Martin, Rogers) of the US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals today reversed the conviction and death sentence of Ohio death row inmate William Garner by a 2-1 vote (Rogers dissenting), and remanded the case back to the US District Court for Southern Ohio to, in turn, order a new trial...

Romell Broom stay of execution apparently will not be appealed

Posted on September 10, 2007
Apparently the Ohio Attorney General is not going to appeal the stay of execution granted to Romell Broom last week in US district court, according to this updated AP article quoting Asst. Ohio AG Leo Jennings to that effect. Excerpt:....

AP on Romell Broom stay of execution:

Posted on September 10, 2007
AP on Romell Broom stay of execution: Andrew Welsh-Huggins has this AP article, entitled "Federal judge grants execution delay," noting the stay of execution granted to Ohio death row inmate Romell Broom last Wednesday. Earlier coverage here...

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