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| Lethal Injection Creator Fine With Ohio's One-Drug Method from Death Penalty News |
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The man considered the father of lethal injection in the United States said it doesn't matter whether 3 fatal drugs are used or one as his home state of Ohio has proposed as long as the drug works efficiently. Dr. Jay Chapman, who developed the lethal 3-drug cocktail in the 1970s when he was the Oklahoma state medical examiner, said Ohio's decision to become the 1st state in the nation to use only 1 drug achieves that goal. He said there was no particular reason he didn't propose a single drug, other than a concern that it might take a little longer to work. His 3-drug method became widespread after states copied Oklahoma. Now Chapman, semiretired in California at age 70, said he believes the system he helped create shows condemned inmates too much mercy. "Their death is made much too easy by this sort of protocol for the crimes that they committed," he told The Associated Press last week. But he said the hope was injection would avoid the pain-and-sufferin ...
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| Ohio: Doctor?s Help Was Sought During Failed Execution Attempt from Death Penalty News |
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As an execution team tried to find a vein during an effort at lethal injection, prison staff members sought help from a doctor ? a move generally discouraged by ethical and professional medical rules ? a deposition filed in Federal District Court shows. The doctor, Carmelita Bautista, said in the deposition that she had never before been involved in an execution. ?No, because I am a doctor,? she tells a lawyer questioning her. ?We are supposed to help people who are sick.? Dr. Bautista said she tried to insert an IV catheter into the foot of the inmate, Romell Broom, during the execution attempt on Sept. 15. Gov. Ted Strickland postponed it after several hours because a usable vein could not be found. The American Medical Association bars members from participating in executions, including anything that would ?contribute to the ability of another individual to directly cause the death of the condemned.? Source: The ASSociated Press, Nov. 24, 2009 It's not about what t ...
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| Survivors of Homicide Victims Awareness Month from For Victims, Against the Death Penalty |
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We have posted in the past about the work of Tina Chery , who founded the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute after her 15-year-old son was killed in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Here's the post that we ran as part of a "Preventing Violence" series we did a couple of years ago, and here's an excerpt from an article that discusses Tina's opposition to the death penalty. One of the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute's initiatives has been to have November 20-December 20th declared Survivors of Homicide Victims Awareness Month in Massachusetts. Here's part of their announcement: "The Governor shall annually issue a proclamation setting apart the period from November 20th to December 20th, inclusive, as a time for Survivors of Homicide Victims Awareness and recommending that the time period be observed in an appropriate manner by the people." Why do we need it? Nearly 35,000 people are killed every year in the U.S., leaving family members, friends and neighbors grieving. 1,156 people were murde ...
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| Lawyer: Ohio's lethal injection a human experiment from Death Penalty News |
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COLUMBUS -- The state's new lethal-injection plan is so untested that it would amount to human experimentation if used for the first time in December, an attorney for a condemned inmate said in a Friday court filing. There is no reason for federal courts to allow the scheduled Dec. 8 execution of Kenneth Biros given the lack of details in the proposed system, which replaces a fatal three-drug cocktail with a single powerful dose of anesthetic, attorney Tim Sweeney said. Ohio also has proposed a two-drug muscle injection as a backup, but Sweeney said in a filing with the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati that there's no evidence of the backup's reliability. "There is nothing in the record on which this Court can make any legitimate determination as to whether the 'back-up' they have selected is as or more constitutionally problematic than a gunshot to the head," Sweeney wrote. The proposal "is human experimentation, pure and simple," Sweeney said. ...
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| One, two or none: Vietnam's MPs debate execution methods from Death Penalty News |
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A new draft law has proposed the introduction of lethal injection as an additional execution method to death by firing squad, but many legislators feel the country should have only one. All those given the death penalty are now executed by shooting. Under the new bill discussed a National Assembly session Friday, lethal injection would be used as a new execution method. It also says the firing squad will be used "in cases that need heavy suppression of crimes, in wartime or state of emergency or when injection is not applicable." Many legislators expressed their opposition to have 2 concurrent execution methods. Representative Ngo Minh Hong from Ho Chi Minh City said the draft law allowed the use of both shooting and lethal injection, but the question is which method would be applied to whom. Duong Ngoc Nguu of Thanh Hoa Province said only one method should be legal to make it fair for everyone. "If both methods are permitted, who will decide on the selectio ...
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| Berlin wants no part in potential 9/11 execution from Death Penalty News |
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A legal team is going to New York to prevent the use of evidence provided by Germany in seeking a death penalty. Berlin wants to ensure that promises made by the US are kept if the suspects are found guilty. A team of observers from the German government is going to New York to oversee the trial of five suspects accused of orchestrating the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, the news magazine Der Spiegel reported on Saturday. The federal trial of the suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-defendants was announced on November 13 by the US Justice Department. The government also asserted that it intends to seek the death penalty if the accused are found guilty. Germany, which does not have a death penalty, provided evidence for the trial on the condition that it could not be used to support a death sentence. Several members of the al Qaeda cell that planned and executed the attacks of September 11 were previously based in the northern German ci ...
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| Poll finds broad support among New Yorkers for death penalty in Khalid Shaikh Mohammed terror case from Death Penalty News |
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An overwhelming majority of New Yorkers believe the terrorist thugs who planned the 9/11 attacks should and will be sentenced to death - and two-thirds of city residents say they'd be unafraid to serve on the jury. An exclusive Daily News/Marist poll found that 77% of New Yorkers agree with President Obama that alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (pictured) and his four cowardly cohorts will be found guilty in a Manhattan federal courtroom. "If I'm on that jury, there's no doubt they get a conviction - no doubt," said Larry Amandola, 48, an electrician from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and one of a dozen regular New Yorkers interviewed separately by The News. "I had a few friends who died on Sept. 11 and I worked [at Ground Zero] immediately after. The people that suffered through this have a right to judge them." The poll of 811 city residents, conducted Wednesday and Thursday by The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion for The News, did find New Yorkers ...
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| Russia's Constitutional Court extends moratorium on the death penalty from Death Penalty News |
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November 19, 2009: Russia's Constitutional Court prolonged a moratorium on the death penalty, which was due to expire on January 1, until it is banned completely. Russia imposed the moratorium after it joined the Council of Europe in 1996 and signed the European Convention on Human Rights, but it has not ratified the document yet. "This decision is final and shall not be appealed," court chairman Valery Zorkin said reading out the ruling. Zorkin said the moratorium on executions will be in place until Russian parliament ratifies Protocol 6 to the European Convention banning the death penalty. He said an "irreversible process to abolish capital punishment" is going on in Russia, which is in line with its international commitments and global tendencies. The speaker of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, said the convention is unlikely to be ratified this year. "A decision to ratify Protocol 6 in December is unrealistic," Boris Gryzlov said. Gryzlov earlier cited st ...
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| A Broken System from For Victims, Against the Death Penalty |
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Kohl Harrington has made a documentary film called A Broken System that features two MVFHR members, and three other obvious stakeholders in the death penalty debate, describing their experiences. Aba Gayle describes the emotions she went through after the murder of her daughter Catherine, the pressure that she felt, as a victim's family member, to support the death penalty, and her eventual decision to oppose the death sentence of her daughter's murderer. Bill Babbitt describes the experience of his brother's death sentence and execution. Juan Melendez describes the experience of being sentenced to death for a murder he didn't commit. Ron McAndrew and Don Cabana tell about being prison wardens overseeing executions. Each segment is about 10 minutes long. It's definitely worth a look, particularly if you have not yet had a chance to hear these people tell their stories.
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| MVFHR member honored by Peace Award from For Victims, Against the Death Penalty |
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MVFHR member Marietta Jaeger Lane is being honored this evening as a recipient of the Institute for Peace Studies Jeannette Rankin Peace Award at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana. Marietta has testified against the death penalty in a wide array of venues in several countries. Testifying in favor of a death penalty abolition bill in 2007, Marietta told lawmakers: While my family and I were camped at the Missouri River Headwaters Park here in Montana 34 years ago, my 7-year-old daughter, Susie, was kidnapped from our tent during the night. Fifteen months later, the FBI identified and arrested a local man responsible for my child?s disappearance and subsequent death. Though the death penalty was applicable in this case, at my request the County Prosecutor offered the alternative sentence, in capital cases, of mandatory life imprisonment without parole. Only then did the young man admit to the rape, strangulation death, and dismemberment of my child as well as the deaths of ...
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