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    Quote Originally Posted by Gavil View Post
    BTW - Anyone know if there were any anti's outside the walls? I'd bet no.
    There were 12 protestors.
    An uninformed opponent is a dangerous opponent.

    "Y'all be makin shit up" ~ Markeith Loyd

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    Quote Originally Posted by bernhard View Post
    For the first time in more than three years, the state of Ohio executed a death row inmate, ending a lull that followed an unusually drawn-out execution relying on a controversial lethal-injection drug.

    State officials executed Ronald Phillips by lethal injection on Wednesday morning at a state prison in Lucasville, about 80 miles south of Columbus, the state capital. The execution was completed at 10:43 a.m. without complications, according to multiple reporters at the prison.

    Phillips, 43, was convicted in 1993 and sentenced to death for raping and murdering his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter, according to court documents and records that describe Phillips brutally assaulting the young child. He had appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court for a last-ditch stay, questioning the state’s planned method of execution and arguing that he “bears no resemblance to that teenager” sentenced to death decades ago.

    Late Tuesday, the Supreme Court denied his requests to stay the execution. The justices did not offer any explanation, though two said they felt Phillips should have had a chance to further question Ohio’s execution method.

    Phillips’s execution marks a rare lethal injection with significance resonating beyond the Buckeye State. Executions in the United States are increasingly unusual, as infrequent as they have been in decades and confined to a small number of states. In part, this is because numerous states are no longer in the business of capital punishment, banning the practice outright or effectively halting it. Other states, like Ohio, have sought to carry out executions, but have been repeatedly delayed by an ongoing shortage of execution drugs along with court-ordered stays.

    If that changes in Ohio, it could lead to a small uptick in executions nationwide this year. There still will be fewer executions in 2017 than in most years dating back to the early 1990s, but Ohio already has made plans for additional executions, including three set for later this year and 23 more scheduled to take place between 2018 and 2020. Given the nationwide drop in executions, the planned Ohio executions, should most or all of them occur, could potentially account for an outsize share of the country’s lethal injections in the coming years.

    Ohio has 139 inmates on death row, among the largest such populations nationwide. For most of this young century, it also has been among the country’s most-active executioners: Between 2001 and 2014, Ohio executed at least one inmate each year, a rate matched only by Texas and Oklahoma during that span, according to the Washington-based Death Penalty Information Center.

    The last few years of that period saw a shift that continues to reverberate through states with capital punishment. Drug companies have objected to their chemicals being used to kill people, leading to a shortage that has spurred states to postpone executions or, in some cases, adapt new and untested combinations of drugs. While the drug shortage has continued, some states also have faced logistical or legal issues, helping contribute to an overall decline in executions. There were 20 executions last year, the fewest in a quarter-century.

    In January 2014, unable to obtain its preferred drug for an upcoming lethal injection, Ohio turned to a new two-drug protocol, pairing midazolam and hydromorphone. The two drugs, which had never before been used to carry out an execution in the United States, were combined to execute Dennis McGuire, who had admitted to raping and murdering Joy Stewart, a pregnant newlywed, in 1989. (Officials had originally intended to first use the new combination on Phillips two months earlier, but his lethal injection was postponed.)

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ree-year-lull/
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    The inmate "could long ago have ended his anxieties and uncertainties by submitting to what the people have deemed him to deserve: execution."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Heidi View Post
    There were 12 protestors.
    Pathetic...........
    “Ninety-nine percent have made peace with their God. Their victims didn’t have that choice.”

    “You're not entitled to a pain-free execution.”

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    Akron child killer Ronald Phillips' execution 'too easy', victim's family says

    LUCASVILLE, Ohio -- The half sister of Ronald Phillips' 3-year-old murder victim said the Akron man's death by lethal injection Wednesday was "too easy" compared to what the toddler endured before her death.

    Sheila Marie Evans, Phillips' girlfriend's daughter, was brutally beaten and raped in the days before her death, which Phillips confessed to shortly thereafter.

    Phillips, 43, died at 10:43 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility's death house. Renee Mundell, who witnessed the execution, said there was no reason the family had to wait 24 years for justice to be served. Phillips' execution was delayed several times, most recently due to lawsuits challenging the state's use of sedative midazolam.

    "Families need closure when they know that they have all the evidence that proves this person has done it," Mundell said.

    Wednesday's execution was the first carried out in Ohio in more than three years. Mundell said she hopes it opens the door for additional executions to go forward to give other families closure. The state has scheduled 26 execution dates through 2020.

    Executions have been on hold since January 2014, when Preble County man Dennis McGuire took an unusually long 26 minutes to die with a two-drug combo including midazolam. The sedative has been involved in problematic executions in other states including Arizona, Oklahoma and Alabama.

    For Phillips, the state used another new combination of drugs: midazolam, rocuronium bromide and potassium chloride. Phillips appeared calm throughout the execution and did not show signs of gasping, choking or struggling as had been seen with McGuire, according to members of the media who witnessed the execution.

    An hour before Phillips' death, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Director Gary Mohr said execution staff members rehearsed the protocol 18 times.

    "I have confidence we're going to continue to do this in a dignified, peaceful, humane way," Mohr said just before Phillips' execution.

    Death penalty opponents have called for Gov. John Kasich to postpone all executions until state officials make reforms recommended by a 2014 death penalty task force.

    Allen Bohnert, a public defender who worked on Phillips' case, said Wednesday's seemingly problem-free execution does not mean Phillips felt no pain. Bohnert said officials administered the second drug, a paralytic, so soon it masked any ill effects felt by the third drug.

    "Ohio once again experimented with a drug that overwhelming scientific consensus says cannot render the inmate unconscious and insensate to the undisputedly unconstitutional pain and suffering from the second and third drugs," Bohnert told reporters after the execution.

    Phillips apologized for his "evil actions" to Sheila Marie's family in a final statement he made before the lethal drugs were administered.

    "Sheila Marie did not deserve what I did to her. I know she is with the Lord and she suffers no more," he said. "I'm sorry to each and every one of you that lived with this pain all those years."

    Mundell and Sheila Marie's aunt, Donna Hudson, said Phillips never contacted the family to express remorse for his crimes or seek forgiveness before the comments he made on his deathbed.

    "God forgive him, but I'm sorry, I don't think I can," Hudson said.

    http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index...ld_phil_1.html

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    I look at the death penalty based on the crime so understand your opinion I also agree with you he deserved the death penalty

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    Ohio death penalty remains in limbo

    Ohio executed Ronald Phillips last week.

    Anyone expecting the resumption of capital punishment in Ohio to provide clarity on the issue was left with little new to discuss.

    For death penalty proponents who felt, "It's about time," they could be speaking about the Phillips case in particular or in general about the state carrying out any death sentence.

    Phillips was sentenced to die nearly a quarter century ago. He raped and killed Sheila Marie Evans, his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter, in 1993.

    Sheila Marie's aunt, Donna Hudson, spoke for many when she said, "Finally, after 24 years, she can rest in peace."

    Phillips' death, at 10:43 a.m. in Lucasville, also ended Ohio's 3°-year delay in executions. Because it lacked any medical or procedural complications, the execution could begin speedier resumption of capital punishment in the state.

    Ohio had put executions on hold in January 2014, following the use of an untested drug combination that left inmate Dennis McGuire gasping and snorting for 15 minutes in a 26-minute procedure. The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied the Phillips defense team more time to pursue legal arguments against Ohio's use of a three-drug drug mixture that sedates the body, then paralyzes it, then stops the heart.

    Death row inmates in Ohio and in other states that have used such drug mixtures (or that are considering doing so) have sued on the grounds that even the uncertainty regarding reactions to the drugs can amount to "cruel and unusual punishment" in violation of the Constitution's Eighth Amendment.

    Those who oppose the death penalty in all cases, particularly on religious grounds, can say Phillips changed in prison and reflects what is supposed to happen with incarceration: rehabilitation.

    "He had grown to be a good man, who was thoughtful, caring, compassionate, remorseful and reflective," his attorneys, Tim Sweeney and Lisa Lagos, said Wednesday, according to the Associated Press. "He tried every day to atone for his shameful role in Sheila's death."

    For Ohioans who say the death penalty should be imposed only for the most heinous crimes and when guilt isn't in doubt, the Phillips case checks both boxes.

    Phillips did not deny his actions. Minutes before dying Wednesday, he gave his final statement, saying, "Sheila Marie didn't deserve what I did to her," and telling her family, "I'm sorry you had to live so long with my actions."

    In denying mercy last year, the Ohio Parole Board called his actions "among the worst of the worst capital crimes."

    Yes, Ohio executed Ronald Phillips -- a confessed "worst of the worst" -- on Wednesday. But nothing that transpired changes the debate about the death penalty in Ohio.

    The governor still supports it and more than 130 men in Ohio's prison system await it.

    The state has scheduled three more executions this year, and according to various media reports plans a faster pace -- about six annually -- over the next several years.

    Expect exhaustive appeals.

    What's cruel and unusual? Families reliving their worst nightmares for years upon years.

    If Ohio remains determined to carry out the death penalty, then it must address a system that makes a family wait nearly 25 years for what it considers justice and peace of mind.

    http://www.daily-jeff.com/opinion/20...mains-in-limbo

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