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Ohio Court Finds Three-Drug Execution Protocol Violates Prisoners’ State Rights
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2009
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2009, page 32
Ohio Court Finds Three-Drug Execution Protocol Violates Prisoners’ State Rights
On June 10, 2008, Judge James J. Burge of the Lorain County Court of Common Pleas has held that the three-drug protocol used by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DORC) to execute prisoners violates their right under Ohio ...
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