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Brad Dicken reports, "Prosecutors may try to get Burge removed from death penalty case," in the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram.Prosecutors are considering asking the Ohio Supreme Court to remove Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge from a three-judge panel that is set to begin hearing the capital murder trial of Manuel Nieves later this month. On Tuesday, Burge ruled that Ohio?s lethal injection process was unconstitutional because the current three-drug cocktail used in executions doesn?t adhere to an Ohio law that requires executions to be carried out ?quickly and painlessly.? Burge ordered the state to instead use only a single drug, a sedative, if Ronald Rivera and Ronald McCloud, the accused killers who challenged the legality of lethal injection, are convicted and sentenced to die...continue to full post

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