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The Future of Lethal Injection in Ohio

By Steve Hall

"Ohio Death Row Inmate Asks for a Delay," is the title of Bob Driehaus' report in today's New York Times.This month?s failed attempt to execute a man convicted of murder and rape in Ohio has prompted another death row inmate to ask the Ohio Supreme Court and a federal appeals court for a stay of execution. Lawyers for that inmate, Lawrence Raymond Reynolds Jr., who is scheduled to die on Oct. 8, said training and procedures for the execution team were inadequate to prevent cruel and unusual punishment. They cited the problems associated with the unsuccessful execution of Romell Broom, who was convicted of the 1984 abduction, rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl. ?If his death sentence is not enjoined or otherwise delayed, the same inadequately trained and unskilled individuals will attempt to execute Reynolds under the same flawed lethal injection protocol employed in the Sept...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 29, 2009 (boomark / email).