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| Ohio's search for execution drugs is getting desperate: editorial |
| By cleveland.com |
| Published: 07/24/2015 |
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The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction registered late last year with the Drug Enforcement Administration to import a lethal-injection drug that the Food and Drug Administration would not have allowed in the country. That shows just how desperate the state has become to find ways to fulfill court-ordered executions in light of court challenges and drug shortages. The state's difficulty in obtaining effective drugs to carry out executions in a way that leaves no questions about their constitutionality should prompt state lawmakers to reconsider the death penalty -- as Nebraska recently did. While the Ohio corrections department has not revealed how much time or money it has spent in search of satisfactory lethal-injection methods while complying with federal court oversight, it is clear that the quest is absorbing resources and staff time that are needed elsewhere. Read More. |
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