Ohio Death Penalty Information 
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Time for ODPI to check out:
Posted on October 05, 2007Time 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, 2007More 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, 2007The 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 media coverage of ABA Ohio
Posted on September 24, 2007More 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, 2007As 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, 2007Full 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...
Posts continue to be limited due
Posted on September 22, 2007Posts continue to be limited due to poor remote internet connectivity. Hope to be back on a regular connection on Monday.
US district court judge rules new
Posted on September 20, 2007US 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...
Ted Strickland: No soul man:
Posted on September 18, 2007Ted 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...
Kenny Richey moved off Ohio's death row
Posted on September 17, 2007Kenny 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...
Ohio Parole Board recommends against
Posted on September 15, 2007Ohio 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, 2007Kenny 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, 2007Daryl 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, 2007Capital 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, 2007US 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...
Tennessee prepares to electrocute
Posted on September 11, 2007Tennessee 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, 2007A 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, 2007Apparently 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, 2007AP 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...
Tennessee set to electrocute inmate
Posted on September 09, 2007Tennessee set to electrocute inmate with documented mental illness on Wednesday: Dan Barry has this article on the TimesSelect (i.e., pay-to-view) section of the New York Times website, entitled "En route to death, killer still lives by his code: His behavior may seem strange, but it is part of the reason why Daryl Keith Holton is heading to the electric chair in Tennessee this week...
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