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Posted: 8:30 PM Nov 30, 2009
Seeing the Execution Process in Ohio Death Penalty Cases
In light of the recent problems over a lethal injection gone wrong in Ohio, the Buckeye State released a new execution policy on Monday. The state also opened its “death house” to the media, including WSAZ.com’s Randy Yohe.
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LUCASVILLE, Ohio (WSAZ) – Few issues, if any, spark more controversy than the death penalty.
While West Virginia does not allow capital punishment, Kentucky and Ohio do.
In light of the recent problems over a lethal injection gone wrong in Ohio, the Buckeye State released a new execution policy on Monday. The state also opened its "death house" to the media, including WSAZ.com's Randy Yohe.
The death house moved to Lucasville from Columbus in 1972. In 1993, inmates were given the choice of electrocution or lethal injection. In 2001, the state did away with the electric chair, and lethal injection was the only choice.
Media from Cleveland to Dayton squeezed into a group of small rooms at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility that make up the so-called death house.
The first stop on the tour was the two divided witness rooms where the families of the inmate and victim witness the execution. The media also saw the holding cell where the inmate spends his last 24 hours with a TV and radio. He gets visits, has a place for contact visits and then walks the 17 steps to the other room.
That’s the holding cell where the inmate is connected to intravenous tubes that will then be connected to the lethal drug. The new execution protocol uses one powerful dose of sodium thiopental rather than the standard three-drug cocktail. All this is done without a doctor on the execution team, but with trained and qualified staffers.
And in light of the recent inability to sustain an IV line to execute inmate Romell Broom, there's now a back up plan to inject two lethal drugs intramuscular like a flu shot.
There are 167 people on death row in Ohio, and one execution set for every month until June.
We're told Ohio is the first state in the nation, and this is the first death house in the world to use the one drug injection method rather than the lethal three-drug cocktail.
Latest Comments
The death penalty is a hoax. It does not deter crime. It costs way more than life without parole. It is racially and geographically biased. It has executed innocent people. It doesn not bring closure for murder victims' family members...nothing does. It siphons off needed resources from law enforcement agencies that are working to make communities safer. And, it makes victims' familes have to re-live a horiffic crime over and over and over again for 10, 15 and even 20 years or more.
It is sad but the crimnals have proven when they commit a capitol crime they are less than humane. I think these "new" problems only came about from the "new methods" of execution. Duh!! even easyier to fix !! GO BACK to Ole' Sparky!! it works EVERY time. It even cost effective. no cleaning needles, and the electric is cheap, About 50 cents or something like that.
I too and upset about this. I am upset that there are 167 people that have been convicted and sentenced but remain on death row. Kentucky has people dieing of natural causes before the process goes through. The sentence has been given, do the appeals in a timely manner, then perform the sentence.
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