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| House Bill 663 helps safe guard Ohio execution process |
| By cleveland.com |
| Published: 12/08/2014 |
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Some pieces of legislation can bring out strong opinions on both sides, not so much because of what is actually contained in the legislation, but simply because of its general subject matter. Such might be the case, I believe, for the Ohio House passage of a bill addressing lethal injection here in Ohio. Whereas the attention given to House Bill 663 understandably revolved around capital punishment, in actuality the bill itself was much more narrowly focused to protecting the confidentiality of the persons who participate in the process of execution by lethal injection. In other words, the vote taken in the House chamber last week was not a vote in support or opposition to the existence of the death penalty in Ohio. Regardless of the outcome of that vote, the death penalty would have still been around in our state. The bill was a response to state officials momentarily suspending the practice of capital punishment because of controversies surrounding an execution earlier this year. HB 663, which passed out of the House with bipartisan support, makes it possible to carry out state law while ensuring executions are conducted in an efficient and humanitarian way. Read More. |
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