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Lethal Injection
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Sentencing Law and Policy
With death of Alva Campbell, Ohio need no longer worry about trying to execute ill prisoner after first botched attempt
Main March 3, 2018With death of Alva Campbell, Ohio need no longer worry about trying to execute ill prisoner after first botched attemptAs reported in this local article, "Alva Campbell,…
Death Penalty
Pentobarbital Supply and Demand for Execution Drugs
By Terry Lenamon / Reba Kennedy
This week, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to consider the case coming out of Texas, where Death Row inmates petitioned SCOTUS to review their claims that Texas’…
Ohio Appellate Insights
Commentary: Another Failed Execution Attempt in Ohio.
Update: On March 3, 2018, Alva Campbell was found dead in his prison cell of natural causes. On September 15, 2009, the state tried, but failed, to execute Romell Broom.…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Reviewing Ohio’s unique execution difficulties … which perhaps explains seemingly ho-hum reaction to latest botched Ohio execution
Main November 18, 2017Reviewing Ohio's unique execution difficulties ... which perhaps explains seemingly ho-hum reaction to latest botched Ohio executionAs detailed in this DPIC listing, this past week, there were…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Ohio unable to complete execution for elderly murderer once called death penalty “poster child”
Main November 15, 2017Ohio unable to complete execution for elderly murderer once called death penalty “poster child”As detailed in this AP report, headlined "Ohio calls off execution after failing to…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Nebraska moving forward with execution plans involving a new four-drug(?!) lethal injection protocol
Main November 10, 2017Nebraska moving forward with execution plans involving a new four-drug(?!) lethal injection protocolThe state of Nebraska has not had an execution in two decades, and the state's…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Lengthy look into latest significant(?) execution in Alabama
Main October 22, 2017Lengthy look into latest significant(?) execution in AlabamaThis lengthy local article, headlined "'I hate you': Inside the execution chamber as Alabama cop-killer put to death," provides an…
Sentencing Law and Policy
SCOTUS vacates by 6-3 vote lower federal court injunction which would have blocked planned Alabama execution
Main October 4, 2017SCOTUS vacates by 6-3 vote lower federal court injunction which would have blocked planned Alabama executionAs reported in this local article, the "U.S. Supreme Court today cleared…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Potential controversy brewing after Ohio completes its second execution of 2017
Main September 13, 2017Potential controversy brewing after Ohio completes its second execution of 2017This updated AP report on Ohio's execution completed this morning suggest that another lethal injection controversy could…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Will Ohio successfully get its machinery of death operational today after 3.5 years of delays?… UPDATE: Yes
Main July 26, 2017Will Ohio successfully get its machinery of death operational today after 3.5 years of delays?... UPDATE: YesThe question in the title of this post is prompted by…