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"Lawyers Challenge Ohio on Executions"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this article in the New York Times, which provides a useful reminder that litigation over lethal injection has not gone away in Ohio even though the state has transitioned to a one-drug execution protocol.  Here are some details: Proper training of prison officials could have prevented a botched execution in Ohio last year that led the state to overhaul its method of execution, lawyers for several death row inmates have argued in court filings. The filings contend that Ohio prison officials have shown a consistent disregard for their own rules in carrying out executions, including failing to ensure that execution staff members attend required rehearsals and training.  And they contend that one of the people who helped conduct the botched execution on Sept...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 12, 2010 (boomark / email).