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By Steve Hall

"Executions are coming too fast, Ohio Public Defender Tim Young says," is Reginald Fields' report at today's Cleveland Plain Dealer.  Here's an extended excerpt:The state of Ohio is lining up death-row inmates for execution at a feverish pace not seen here since capital punishment was reinstated a decade ago. Having already carried out three executions since June, the state has scheduled at least one lethal injection every month through the end of the year. That could mean that by year's end, Ohio will have executed eight men in the final seven months of 2009. The previous high was seven in all of 2004. They are coming too fast, argues Ohio Public Defender Tim Young, who worries that the burdens on state officials to carry out the tasks in rapid-fire succession could lead to careless mistakes...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 10, 2009 (boomark / email).