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The Latest Lethal Injection News From Ohio

By Steve Hall

"New lethal injection policies put Ohio at center of legal and ethical debate over executions," in today's Cleveland Plain Dealer is written by Aaron Marshall.Death row inmates and advocates on both sides of the capital punishment debate across the country have had their eyes on Ohio since the recent announcement that this state will pioneer the use of a single drug to execute inmates. Earlier this month, Ohio prison officials announced they will abandon the three-drug cocktail for lethal injection in favor of a single injection of a massive dose of barbiturates. If the execution team is unable to find a suitable vein, the drug will be injected into an inmate's chest muscle. Both procedures are unprecedented in modern American execution practices, and the new blueprint has thrust Ohio into the center of the raging ethical and legal debates that swirl around capital punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 23, 2009 (boomark / email).