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Ohio Lethal Injection Hearing Concludes

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The Elyria Chronicle-Telegram reports, "Burge's death penalty hearing wraps up."  It's written by Brad Dicken.Earlier this year, ACLU attorney Jeff Gamso said he hadn?t gone looking for ?nice ways to kill people,? but he may have found one that?s humane enough to consider. Gamso, the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio?s legal director, conceded Tuesday that evidence gathered during hearings a county judge is holding to review lethal injection might offer a solution. ?There is no nice way to kill people, but I think the evidence in this case is that a single megadose of a barbiturate, properly administered, would provide a painless death,? Gamso said after the most recent hearing Tuesday. Gamso is one of several attorneys representing accused killers Ruben Rivera and Ronald McCloud, who are challenging the legality and constitutionality of Ohio?s lethal injection process in an unprecedented hearing before county Common Pleas Judge James Burge...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 07, 2008 (boomark / email).