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    Ohio will never execute again.
    Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products.

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    pretty much all states at this point....

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    Ohio’s motion to conceal the identity of DRC Employee No 1 denied by the Sixth Circuit.

    https://law.justia.com/cases/federal...022-06-28.html
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    Death by firing squad: How likely is it in Ohio?

    By Patty Coller and Chelsea Simeon
    Fox 8

    It has been over 35 years since Danny Lee Hill was sentenced to death for the murder of 12-year-old Raymond Fife. While his stay on Death Row has been lengthy, it’s not unusual for prisoners in Ohio.

    Ohio has 130 prisoners on Death Row, many of which have been there for decades. The last execution in the state took place on July 18, 2018, when Robert Van Hook was executed 33 years after stabbing a man to death in a Cincinnati apartment.

    The hold-up on Hill’s execution has drawn the ire of Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins, who recently asked the legislature to consider other methods such as electrocution or a firing squad. He added that Fife’s mother, who is in her 80s, should see justice served in her lifetime. FOX 8 sister station WKBN spoke to her in 2019, and she talked about the lack of closure in the case.

    Recently, states like South Carolina began looking into these other options as lethal injection drugs are becoming harder to find.

    Are these methods likely in Ohio, though?

    Dan Tierney, press secretary for Ohio Governor Mike DeWine’s office, said there is more to it than just making the decision to switch.

    “Methods of execution are set in statute. Current statutes designate only lethal injection as a permissible method. Any change in statute would be initiated by the Ohio General Assembly,” he said in a statement to WKBN.

    There is currently no pending legislation to make changes to the state’s execution method, though there is legislation to completely abolish it. Those bills were introduced in the House and Senate and were sent to committees for review.

    State Senator Nickie Antonio, D-23rd District, said looking for other forms of execution is not the answer.

    “I do not believe the solution for the inability to carry out executions by lethal injection is to search for other ways to take a life. To me, the moratorium on the death penalty in Ohio should be extended indefinitely. Since 2011, I have introduced legislation to end the death penalty, once and for all – most recently as Senate Bill 103, a bipartisan bill introduced this General Assembly to end Ohio’s use of the death penalty and replace it with a sentence of life without parole.”

    WKBN First News reached out to several Valley lawmakers about their thoughts on what, if any, action can be expected from the General Assembly. None that we reached out to returned our request, other than Sen. Antonio.

    It’s not surprising that lawmakers may be resistant to talking about the hot-button issue.

    The Office of Ohio Public Defenders is in support of SB 103 and its abolition of the death penalty in the state.

    Writing for the Ohio Bar Association (OBA) in 2021, State Public Defender Timothy Young said that “the death penalty is the most inefficient government program in existence. If any other law was this expensive, this flawed and this ineffective at delivering results, there is no doubt the General Assembly would rescind that law.”

    Saleh Awadallah, who works in the Cuyahoga County prosecutor’s office as the Major Trial Unit Supervisor, wrote in an OBA report that the Ohio legislature has done virtually nothing to advance enabling statutes designed to effectuate victims’ rights under the Ohio Constitution (Marsy’s Law). He asks “will they fix it, or will they further cripple it?”

    Awadallah wrote that the courts often move slowly on capital cases after conviction because executions are likely decades away.

    So what’s the hold-up with Ohio’s executions?

    Lethal injection is still the most common method of execution, but more recently, there have been some issues with the process.

    Part of the delay in Ohio is that pharmaceutical companies have specified that their drugs can’t be used for lethal injection. If the state were to ignore that directive, these companies have stated they will no longer provide their pharmaceutical drugs to any state entity, including state hospitals.

    Some of those companies contend that their drugs weren’t designed for this purpose, and they don’t want them connected to killing people.

    There isn’t one specific drug created for executions, rather, states are using a drug cocktail designed to produce certain effects. Ohio had been using midazolam as part of its three-drug protocol and used it during its last execution in the state, on Robert Van Hook.

    In a court filing, Dr. Mark Edgar, who performed Van Hook’s autopsy; and a witness in the case seeking to do away with the death penalty said the drug causes pulmonary edema, creating “air hunger.” Edgar said that the lungs fill up with fluid instead of air. In the court filing, medical witnesses describe pulmonary edema as physically and emotionally painful, stressful and panic-inducing.

    Edgar had said that phenobarbital, also a lethal injection drug, does the same thing.

    The federal judge agreed with Edgar’s assessment, comparing it to waterboarding, and said it met the Supreme Court’s standard for cruel and unusual punishment.

    Citing the Supreme Court decision, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine delayed the execution of Warren Henness, who still remains on Ohio’s Death Row for the murder of his drug-abuse counselor, while state officials could look at other drug options.

    DeWine’s spokesperson said the governor’s reprieve on recent executions has not been related to just one specific drug, however, but the ability to find any drugs.

    How alternative methods of execution are working in other states

    As the drugs used for executions have become harder to find, states are looking at new methods — even returning to older methods, like electrocution and firing squads, to execute their prisoners.

    In 2018, Alabama became the third state — along with Oklahoma and Mississippi — to authorize the untested use of nitrogen gas to execute prisoners. Death would be caused by forcing the inmate to breathe only nitrogen, depriving that inmate of oxygen.

    According to the Associated Press, lawmakers thought it could be a more humane way of execution, though critics said it amounts to human experimentation.

    No state has used it to carry out an execution, though Alabama reported that it has a system in place for it, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

    In May, South Carolina added a firing squad as a method of execution, attributing its hiatus in executions to an inability to secure lethal injection drugs after the state’s last batch expired in 2013.

    The Death Penalty Information Center has been tracking the recent developments in executions across the United States. The non-profit organization was founded in 1990 to provide in-depth reports and analyses on the history and new developments of the death penalty.

    One thing that has remained true, according to the center’s deputy director Ngozi Ndulue, is that as new methods are developed, lawsuits often follow.

    “When we have execution methods that haven’t happened in decades, or you have one that, no one has ever been executed with one, I think that there is definitely going to be litigation. And then you also have states that have set up their procedures in ways that almost guarantee last-minute litigation,” Ndulue said.

    In South Carolina’s case, Richard Bernard Moore was to be the first firing squad execution in the United States since 2010, but the state’s high court issued a temporary stay on the April execution. Moore’s attorneys had challenged the constitutionality of South Carolina’s execution methods, which also include the electric chair. Lawyers argued that both methods are “barbaric” methods of killing and questioned prison officials’ claims that they couldn’t get lethal injection drugs.

    Traditionally, a prisoner who is executed by a firing squad is bound to a chair with a hood pulled over his or her head. Standing in an enclosure 20 feet away are shooters armed with .30-caliber rifles loaded with single rounds. One of the shooters is given blank rounds. The shooters then fire at the inmate, aiming at his or her heart.

    In another controversial method, reports say Arizona refurbished its gas chamber and purchased the chemicals used to make hydrogen cyanide gas. Critics compared it to the method that the Nazis used during the Holocaust to kill hundreds of thousands of Jewish people at the Auschwitz concentration camp.

    The Associated Press reports that while a few other states have lethal-gas execution laws on the books, Arizona is the only one that still has a working gas chamber. Its last lethal gas execution was carried out in 1999.

    State corrections officials did not respond to WKBN’s request for comment on its planned procedure.

    In April, a judge denied a request by the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Phoenix to bar the state from using cyanide gas to carry out executions in Arizona. The judge ruled that the state’s constitution allows for the use of lethal gas in death penalty cases, and inmates are given the choice between lethal gas and injection, though no inmates have picked lethal gas so far.

    An appeal has been filed in that case.

    Potential litigation aside, even if Ohio were to pursue another method of execution, it would have to get the materials first.

    In 2001, Ohio Gov. Bob Taft stopped electrocution as a form of capital punishment in Ohio. In 2002, Ohio’s electric chair, nicknamed “Old Sparky,” was decommissioned and disconnected from service. The original electric chair was donated to the Ohio Historical Society, and a replica electric chair was donated to the Mansfield Reformatory Preservation Society.

    Is society getting away from the death penalty?

    Virginia abolished the death penalty last year, becoming the 23rd state, and the first in the South, to eliminate capital punishment. The repeal was significant because the state was a leader in executions.

    Those in favor of the repeal cited the death penalty’s legacy and connections to slavery and lynching.

    During the peak of modern-day executions in the U.S., the states were executing about 98 prisoners per year, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Now, there are less than 30 per year.

    There are a few reasons behind this, Ndulue says.

    “One of the things that I will say that really has contributed a lot to this erosion of the death penalty is further awareness that innocent people get wrongfully convicted and do get sentenced to death,” she said.

    There are also financial implications.

    “From the moment that a death penalty case starts, it’s more expensive than any type of case,” Ndulue said.

    The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections did not have information on the cost of executing a prisoner, but the Death Penalty Information Center reports that studies consistently show that it is actually more expensive than alternative punishments. One big factor driving up the cost is the cost of the appeals process and legal protections in death penalty cases.

    Ohio Public Defender Timothy Young, writing for the Ohio Bar Association, cited a 2014 report from the Dayton Daily News that reported that Ohio taxpayers pay approximately $3 million per death penalty case compared to $1 million per life without parole case.

    According to the latest release from the Ohio Department of Corrections, the average daily cost to house each inmate is $97, with a total yearly budget of over $1.5 million.

    Ndulue said with those things in mind, officials in various states have decided that it’s not worth the effort.

    “It’s just like, ‘Wait, so we’re jumping through all of these hoops when we know that the most likely outcome of any death sentence that is imposed is that they’re going to end up with a life sentence?’ It’s much less likely for a death sentence to result in an execution than it is for the death sentence to actually be reduced to life,” she said.

    In total, just 11 inmates were executed across the U.S. in 2021.

    The question is how long will Ohio wait out what to do with the death penalty? With no pending legislation to approve other forms of capital punishment, Death Row inmates will sit and wait through their appeals — inmates like Warren Spivey, who broke into the Youngstown home of 53-year-old Veda Vesper in January of 1989, stabbing and beating her to death during the robbery.

    Spivey was sentenced to death in November of 1989 for the crime, but he sat in the Chillicothe Correctional Institution until Jan. 17, 2020, when he died of natural causes.

    The question now is whether Danny Lee Hill’s prison sentence will end the same way.

    https://fox8.com/news/death-by-firin...is-it-in-ohio/
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    Ohio executions still on hold as state struggles to get drugs needed

    We’re investigating the status of Ohio’s death penalty, since it’s been 4 years since the state’s last execution.

    We found Ohio’s “unofficial” death penalty moratorium is continuing.

    Execution dates for death row inmates continue to be pushed back and rescheduled again.

    19 Investigates found there are no executions set for this year anymore, after the governor made some postponements.

    Governor Mike DeWine points to the state’s continued struggle to get the drugs needed for lethal injection from pharmaceutical companies as part of the problem.

    It’s an issue many other states are facing.

    Quisi Bryan was set to be executed next month.

    He shot and killed Cleveland police officer Wayne Leon back in 2000.

    Bryan is now set to be executed in 4 years, in 2026.

    19 Investigates found 129 Ohio inmates are on death row, including 1 woman.

    9 executions are set for next year, 8 are scheduled for 2024, 10 executions are set for 2025 and 5 are on the list for 2026.

    That’s 42 total executions scheduled so far.

    We learned the 1st execution in 2023 is set for March.

    Charles Lorraine was convicted of stabbing an elderly couple in Warren to death in 1986.

    The execution of Melvin Bonnell is also set for next year.

    Bonnell was convicted for the 1987 murder of Robert E. Bunner in Ohio City.

    The latest execution date was just set this Wednesday for a convicted child killer.

    The Ohio Supreme Court announced Danny Lee Hill will be put to death July 2026.

    Investigators say Hill raped and murdered a 12-year-old boy in Trumbull County back in 1985.

    He’s been on death row since 1986 and continues to appeal his conviction.

    We discovered the average time an inmate spends on death row in Ohio has increased to about 20 years.

    But only 1 of every 6 death penalties issued since 1981 have been carried out.

    State officials are well aware of issues with the system, calling it “increasingly time consuming, costly and lethargic” in the 2021 Capital Crimes Annual Report.

    The Death Penalty Information Center analyzed more than 400 Ohio death sentences and found the most likely outcome isn’t death.

    Instead, the death sentence is often overturned and the defendant is resentenced to life or exonerated.
    In 2020, DeWine urged lawmakers to find a different method for state executions.

    From 1981 to 2021, 336 people received the death penalty in Ohio.

    Here is the full statement we received from Governor DeWine’s Office:

    Under current Ohio Law, capital punishment is still an allowable punishment for certain crimes, and lethal injection is the only permissible method of capital punishment. However, Governor DeWine has issued several reprieves to individuals with upcoming execution dates due to ongoing problems involving the willingness of pharmaceutical suppliers to provide drugs to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC), pursuant to DRC protocol for executions, without endangering other Ohioans who rely on the State to provide them with prescription drugs from those same suppliers.

    (source: WOIO News)
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
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    In a recent interview from ABC 6

    He also would not comment about his current stance on the death penalty; the former prosecutor and attorney general had supported capital punishment for years. "We've had no executions and I don't anticipate any," he said, because the state can't get the drugs needed for the process.

    https://dayton247now.com/news/local/...bly-statehouse

    I called this years ago.
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    The Ohio Attorney General has just released a 400 page report on the Death Penalty.

    Literally first page, "At present, an inmate on Ohio’s Death Row spends an average of nearly 21 years on death row mostly as a result of multiple avenues for appeal — before an execution date is set. And currently, because of the unavailability of execution drugs under the current protocol, no death row inmate faces imminent execution. This means that an inmate is more likely to die of suicide or natural causes than as a result of execution."

    To execute the remaining death row inmates. A sentencing commission has found "If these estimates apply to Ohio, then the extra cost of imposing the death penalty on the 128 inmates currently on Death Row might range between $128 million to $384 million."

    The report goes into depth on each inmate and why their case is currently stuck in appeals. It gives an entire case history for all of them.

    It points out that the judges literally aren't doing their jobs and granting unlimited extensions. It points out that the politicans aren't coming up with any solutions and are wasting time. The AG says if he was governor he would abolish it because the death penalty in the state is a waste of money and time.

    https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/...esAnnualReport
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    The claim that the death penalty is costly has been debunked as abolitionist propaganda long ago.

    https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/...ing-money.html

    Indeed in the report cited in the earlier post, the Ohio attorney general says that he would prefer capital punishment to be streamlined and enforced than repealed.

    In South Korea, they have a provision that a death sentence is automatically commuted if it had not been carried out within 30 years from its judicial finalization.

    The South Korean Justice Minister recently asked the legislature to retroactively repeal this provision, as the first commutation is going to happen this year, for a capital sentence finalized in November 1993 for the murder of 15 people.

    http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20230412000546

    One will ask: Why, in a country that didn’t have a single execution since 1997?

    The only explanation, is that the provision would force the Justice Ministry to make a choice in each case between execution and commutation, and the South Korea electorate would not accept the second option.

    Same with Ohio. DeWine delays executions because politically he cannot do more. Every six months headlines say Ohio is closer to abolishment "than ever" but it can’t even pass committees.

    Same with federal justice. Biden obviously understand the electoral cost of a blanket commutation, otherwise he would already have issued it. One will say that one day, Biden will no longer care about the political cost because he will be lame-duck, but he might care about the future of the Democratic Party, and of future Democratic candidates who will have to explain during the subsequent midterms and other elections that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Dylann Roof and others deserved mercy. As Joe Biden is the author of the 1994 federal death penalty bill, it is not even sure that he really now opposes it, and that this position was not a mere choice to win the Democratic presidential primary in the peculiar 2020 context.

    Anyway, blanket commutations would be just Anderson or Furman-like restarts. What weight would have the cost claim in a state like Ohio, if they had only 10 condemned men sentenced for the kind of crimes of which death penalty opponents usually don’t want to talk long about the details? In California, that would remove the only reason for the courts to not apply the five-year deadline to decide state appeals set by Proposition 66.

    So to the contrary, a statute should be passed providing that a death sentence is automatically commuted if it has not been carried out within two years from its finalization or five years from the statute enactment, whichever is later.

    The deadline should be suspended by any judicial stay or practical infeasibility of the execution (escape, genuine lack of drugs, etc.) because of course, otherwise it would make the death penalty unenforceable, and it would be accepted only by abolitionists — that’s what the Privy Council did (even though in the U.S. context, that would also fuel process streamlining measures

    http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...778#post149778).
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    Prosecutors want to resume executions using nitrogen hypoxia

    By Samana Sheikh
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    COLUMBUS, Ohio — It's been five years since Ohio has executed its death penalty. Gov. Mike DeWine delayed executions due to limited access of the drug used for the lethal injection. But Ohio prosecutors are looking to resume executions through alternative methods.

    "We just want to find a pathway forward for the victims of these crimes," said Louis Tobin, the executive director of Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association.

    Tobin said Ohio needs to continue its using the death penalty to provide proper justice. He said if there is a shortage of the drug needed for the lethal injection, Ohio can use nitrogen hypoxia.

    "Filings by the defense bar and federal death penalty pleadings and in (the) Supreme Court of Ohio pleadings have acknowledged that it would be a painless method of execution," Tobin said.

    The process of nitrogen hypoxia works by removing oxygen and letting a person die by inhaling nitrogen gas. But access to the drug is not the only factor, and not everyone agrees with the death penalty. Dr. Rev. Jack Sullivan Junior from the Ohio Council of Churches said capital punishment is immoral.

    "Holding someone down," Sullivan Junior said, "and strapping them down to fill their veins with toxins is not humane."

    Sullivan applauds prosecutors for wanting to bring justice to the victims of people who are put on death row. However, he said there is always another option.

    "I think the public supports life in prison for those persons," Sullivan Junior said, "which, according to records, is more a cheaper way to go than the execution visit itself."

    According to the Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, it costs roughly $37,000 per year to house an inmate. That's compared to $1 to $3 million per person for a lethal injection, according to a study by the Ohio Legislative Service Commission.

    "Somebody who murders one young child is already facing that possibility without a death penalty," Tobin said, "and without the additional accountability that it provides, you're allowing them to kill the second and third child for free. They're free kills. So the death penalty is what justice demands sometimes. Either we're going to be a state that prioritizes public safety and prioritizes the victims of crime or we're not."

    In response to the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association proposal, the governor’s office said only the Ohio General Assembly can change the methods for applying the death penalty.

    https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbu...tive-methods--
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    Opinion:

    Victims deserve justice. Why the effort to repeal the Ohio death penalty is dangerous


    By Louis Tobin
    Columbus Dispatch

    Louis Tobin is executive director of the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association.

    A recent Dispatch guest column by retired Ohio judge James Brogan lamented the fact that the General Assembly has not acted on many of the recommendations of the 2014 Joint Task Force on the Administration of Ohio’s Death Penalty.

    The columnist called for repeal of the death penalty because of the inaction.

    The task force recommendations were driven by a pro-defense anti-death penalty majority who recommended a series of proposals ostensibly intended to make the death penalty fairer.

    Ostensibly because opponents of the death penalty are not really interested in a fairer capital justice system.

    As Professor Doug Berman of Ohio State’s law school astutely recognized in an article published in the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy “serious efforts to further 'perfect' existing death penalty systems will provide defense lawyers and abolitionists with still more opportunities to impede the prospects and progress of even the most horrific murderer advancing toward a state’s death chamber.”

    Rather than creating more fairness, the task force's recommendations would create more unnecessary legal hurdles intended to tie the death penalty up in more litigation and cause more undue delay for victims and their families.

    Most telling is that task force rejected pro-victim recommendations offered by the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association that would have allowed judges to consider victim impact and to conduct a full and fair assessment of aggravating circumstances in death penalty cases. But the task force was not remotely interested in fairness for the victims.

    Opponents of the death penalty are interested in one thing: abolishing the death penalty.

    Barring that, they want to create more and more legal obstacles to capital punishment so that they can then point to those obstacles to justify their argument that the system is broken and ineffective.

    Opponents are not interested in a path to justice for the victims of our most horrific crimes. For them, fairness is a one-way street. It doesn’t have to be this way.

    The effort to repeal the death penalty is misguided, dangerous, and does not reflect what most people want from their justice system.

    Gallup polling on the death penalty consistently shows that support is between 55% - 60%.

    When people are asked about the specific types of murders that can result in a death sentence – the rape or kidnapping and murder of a young child, acts of terrorism, or committing multiple acts of murder – support for the death penalty is even greater, reaching 70% - 80%.

    These are the types of murders for which the death penalty is used in Ohio.

    The Obama administration understood the need for the death penalty in its pursuit of a death sentence for the terrorist bombing of the Boston Marathon.

    The Biden administration understood the need for the death penalty in its pursuit of a death sentence for the hate crime murders at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.

    This is precisely why we have a death penalty.

    There is nothing progressive, there is nothing conservative, there is nothing compassionate, and there is nothing just about allowing people to commit these acts without facing some ultimate accountability to their victims and to their community.

    It is simply dangerous.

    Ohio prosecutors want the death penalty to be fair, accurate, and to guarantee defendants the due process they deserve.

    Unlike opponents we want fairness for the victims also.

    This requires creating a path to justice that avoids undue delay in the carrying out of death sentences. It requires the political will to resume executions and enforce the law in pursuit of justice for the victims of these most horrific crimes.

    This is what justice demands.

    https://www.dispatch.com/story/opini...y/71624735007/
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
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    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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