Experts: Failed execution attempt may cause legal challenges

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Andrew Welsh-huggins, Associated Press
Updated 2:28 pm, Thursday, November 16, 2017

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's failure to execute a condemned killer with poor veins despite multiple claims by the state that the veins were accessible will lead to new challenges of the state lethal injection process, death penalty experts predict.

Each new problem with executions adds to the question of whether Ohio is violating the constitutional rights of death-row prisoners, Mike Benza, a Case Western Reserve University law professor who has represented death-row inmates, said Thursday.
 
Front and center is the state's protocol for conducting executions, he said.

"How can you write this, say, 'This is what we're going to do, we've trained our people,' and then they don't do it?" Benza said.

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[ollie10]

1. There is something bizarre about someone not being healthy enough to die....

The death penalty is inhumane. It makes murderers of all of us, when it is done in our names.