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New Commentary From Deborah Denno

By Steve Hall

"Ohio's Perverse First Place," is the title of her Huffington Post essay.Ohio executed Ken Biros by lethal injection yesterday. Having garnered this country's worst record of execution botches, the state also acquired another first place by imposing a method of execution never before used on anyone, anywhere. Mr. Biros died from a lethal dose of a single-drug and he could have died from an even riskier back-up plan -- procedures prompted by Ohio's disastrous attempts to execute another inmate this past September.Biros's execution was not problem-free. Executioners required a half-hour, and nine unsuccessful attempts, to finally find a vein in which to put an IV catheter. According to one AP reporter, Ohio officials warned him and other witness-journalists that Biros could end up vomiting and convulsing if in fact the backup plan went into effect...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 10, 2009 (boomark / email).