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| Decision on legality of lethal injection process |
| By The Plain Dealer |
| Published: 11/01/2007 |
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OHIO - A Lorain County judge, once the attorney for a death row inmate, can decide whether Ohio's lethal injection process is legal before starting a man's murder trial, the Ohio Supreme Court has ruled. Never has an Ohio trial judge agreed to consider the constitutionality of lethal injection before a capital punishment trial has even started. But that is exactly what Common Pleas Judge James Burge did, drawing the wrath of the state attorney general, who said that Burge - in his first year on the bench - was far overstepping his authority. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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