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More on Jason Getsy in Ohio

By Steve Hall

Ohio's Warren Tribune Chronicle reports, "Court rejects Getsy?s lethal injection appeal," by Christopher Bobby. With his execution still scheduled for Tuesday and still awaiting word from the governor on a possible reprieve, death row inmate Jason Getsy failed Wednesday in a last-ditch attempt to get federal appellate judges to hear more arguments on Ohio's lethal injection.In a 13-page decision, a three-judge panel with the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals said Getsy was time barred, or late, with his attempts to argue the constitutionality of Ohio's form of execution.Ohio's form of lethal injection already was affirmed in an earlier case.The same three appellate judges were the ones who set aside Getsy's execution in August 2006, saying his execution violated the Eighth Amendment arbitrariness standard because other defendants in the case were only given life sen- tences...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 14, 2009 (boomark / email).