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The Executioners

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That's the title of Eric Lyttle's lengthy report in the Columbus Ohio's The Other Paper.  LINKOn Oct. 14, the state of Ohio is scheduled to execute Death Row inmate Richard Cooey by injecting a lethal three-drug combination through several feet of tubing into a hollow IV needle inserted directly into his vein. The state mandates that the killing be done ?quickly and painlessly.? There?s one problem, though. The medical professionals best suited to carry out the process want no part of it. There?s a confounding contradiction in the Ohio Revised Code.On the one hand, the state courts and legislature support the death penalty as an apparent public good, a deterrent to society?s most heinous crimes. Courts at both the state and federal levels have consistently ruled in favor of capital punishment in Ohio and the 37 other states that allow the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 14, 2008 (boomark / email).