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Ohio Lethal Injection Ruling Expected

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Ohio's Elyria Chronicle-Telegram reports, "Ruling on death penalty due soon," written by Brad Dicken. Attorneys challenging the state?s lethal injection process on behalf of two accused killers failed to prove that the way the state executes prisoners is unconstitutional or that it violates Ohio law, according to prosecutors defending the process.  The state?s protocols are not only constitutional, they meet the requirements of an Ohio law that requires executions to be quick and painless, Assistant Lorain County Prosecutor Tony Cillo wrote in his closing argument, filed Tuesday. ?Because the undisputed evidence establishes that the properly anesthetized inmate cannot feel pain,  < Ohio's three-drug cocktail is, by definition, ?painless,? ? Cillo wrote...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 04, 2008 (boomark / email).