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Should Ohio Supreme Court start scheduling more than one execution per month?

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this prior post, Ohio's public public defender last summer complained about the state's quickened pace of scheduled executions.  But, as detailed in this new AP report, which is headlined "Ohio Supreme Court considers 5 new execution dates," it would seem that the Ohio Supreme Court's tendency to schedule only one execution per month is setting a pace that is too slow, not too fast.  As that AP report notes, Ohio already has executions scheduled, at a pace of one per month, through September 2010.  Unless the Ohio Supreme Court is willing to scheduled executions more frequently, the latest round of execution requests could have the state's death chamber "all booked up" well into 2011. Significantly, Ohio has over 175 murderers currently on the state's death row...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 05, 2010 (boomark / email).