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Judge Orders Ohio to Alter It's Method of Execution

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That's the title of Adam Ellick's and Adam Liptak's article in today's New York Times.  LINK  Judge James Burge's ruling is here.Ohio must stop using a common combination of three chemicals to execute condemned inmates because they may produce excruciating pain, a state court judge there ruled Tuesday. Then, in what legal experts said was a first, the judge instead ordered the state to start using a single large dose of barbiturate, common in animal euthanasia. The decision is an exception to recent judicial trends in the wake of the United States Supreme Court?s decision in April in Baze v. Rees, which upheld Kentucky?s lethal injection protocol, similar to the one used in Ohio. There have been five executions ? two in Georgia and one each in Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia ? since Baze ended a de facto seven-month moratorium...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 11, 2008 (boomark / email).