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Lethal Injection Roundup

By Steve Hall

"Killer's death could be historic; State would hit new toll in era of lethal injections," is the title of a Columbus Dispatch report by Alan Johnson. If Michael Benge is lethally injected as scheduled on Wednesday, Ohio will have executed the most prisoners in one year since 1949.Sixty-one years ago, 15 men were put to death in the state's electric chair, which is no longer used.In the modern era - since the state resumed capital punishment in 1999 - the most executions in one year, until this year, was seven in 2004.The pace of executions has picked up in the past two years in Ohio. Another is scheduled for Nov. 16 (Sidney Cornwell of Mahoning County). Gov. Ted Strickland granted clemency in two other death-penalty cases...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 05, 2010 (boomark / email).