Post by thinkinkmesa on Nov 6, 2015 12:56:09 GMT -5
Let the death penalty die in Ohio after forced hiatus in executions: editorial
Ohio hasn't executed anybody since January 2014, when Dennis McGuire took about 25 minutes to die from a previously untested two-drug concoction of midazolam and hydromorphone.
Legal challenges to Ohio's lethal-injection method of execution have contributed to the delay, but even though a recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court has made those challenges tougher, procuring the necessary drugs remains an issue.
Last month, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction postponed executions until 2017 because of problems finding the drugs needed to carry them out.
The legislature should take this hiatus from capital punishment as an opportunity to conduct a full review of Ohio's death penalty law, and the mood of the people, to see if it's time to scrub it altogether.
More;
www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/11/the_death_penaltys_demise_is_i.html
Ohio hasn't executed anybody since January 2014, when Dennis McGuire took about 25 minutes to die from a previously untested two-drug concoction of midazolam and hydromorphone.
Legal challenges to Ohio's lethal-injection method of execution have contributed to the delay, but even though a recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court has made those challenges tougher, procuring the necessary drugs remains an issue.
Last month, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction postponed executions until 2017 because of problems finding the drugs needed to carry them out.
The legislature should take this hiatus from capital punishment as an opportunity to conduct a full review of Ohio's death penalty law, and the mood of the people, to see if it's time to scrub it altogether.
More;
www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/11/the_death_penaltys_demise_is_i.html