Ohio argues against execution delays for 3 condemned inmates

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Julie Carr Smyth, Associated Press
Updated 4:48 pm, Friday, July 21, 2017


COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio state attorneys argued on Friday against delaying three upcoming executions on grounds that the condemned killers have little chance of legal victory and repeated postponements are draining state resources.

The state's first execution in more than three years is scheduled for Wednesday. Death row inmate Ronald Phillips is scheduled to die for the 1993 rape and killing of his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter in Akron.

He and two other inmates seek more time from the U.S. Supreme Court to appeal Ohio's lethal injection method.

Their lawyers argue the procedure's first drug, the sedative midazolam, creates an unconstitutional risk of pain by not rendering prisoners deeply unconscious before two other drugs kick in.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/3-condemned-Ohio-inmates-ask-high-court-to-delay-11305977.php

[bitterross]

1. Why are we in such a hurry to kill more people?

The death penalty has been shown to be racist and tilted against the poor. I'm sure there were heinous crimes committed. Maybe, in these cases, the convicted are actually guilty. Not that that is a certainty by any means.

I have no idea for certain but I bet if I find pictures of the three people they will all be minorities. The odds are in my favor of being right.

I just don't think an eye for an eye is good policy. State sponsored killing still takes the life of another human.

[christx30]

2. Ronald Phillips is white.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/other/child-killer-testifies-death-row-i-guess-lord-hid-my-f8C11514822

He's afraid of the pain of needles when he's executed for raping and killing a 3-year-old.