Fast-tracked bill would shield execution drug
Source: Associated Press
Fast-tracked bill would shield execution drug
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, AP Legal Affairs Writer | November 18, 2014 | Updated: November 18, 2014 1:19am
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Opponents have lined up to testify against a fast-tracked legislative proposal to shield the names of companies whose drugs are used for lethal injections in Ohio.
The bill introduced a week ago and already set for a vote later this week in the House Policy and Legislative Oversight Committee also would bar companies from entering into contracts prohibiting states from acquiring drugs for executions.
The bill also prevents information about a lethal injection drugmaker or distributor from being disclosed in court.
Such a proposal raises separation of power issues at the state and federal levels and likely would be ignored by a federal judge, state public defender Tim Young planned to tell the committee.
The Republican-backed legislation is sponsored by state Reps. Jim Buchy and Matt Huffman and pushed by prosecutors, who say the bill is needed to help restart executions in the state. Buchy has said he believes the bill is constitutional.
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in the country with the largest prison population (but not the largest population by far) and one of less than a handful of "first world" nations who still execute people, we must resume executions in Ohio. 
