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Ohio's Lethal Injection Practices

By Steve Hall

"Former Ohio executioner: EMT experience can be an asset," is Andrew Welsh-Huggins' Associated Press report via the Newark Advocate.While others debate the death penalty and lethal injection, Ohio's longest-serving executioner provided a personal perspective on carrying out the unwanted job, saying his experience as an emergency medical technician helped him handle the stress.Known as Team Member 18, the now-former executioner testified in March in an ongoing federal case brought by Ohio death-row inmates.Separately, a state lawyer's legal opinion requested by the office that oversees EMTs said Wednesday that the state cannot stop emergency medical technicians from serving as members of Ohio's execution team."I have had to deal with death and dying on a daily basis as a paramedic," Team Member 18 testified...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 21, 2009 (boomark / email).