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Ohio completes "record" eighth (uneventful?) single-drug execution of 2010

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this local article, which is headlined "Ohio executes record eighth man this year," the Buckeye State continues to demonstrate its willingness and ability to keep the machinery of death humming.  Here are some of the personal details about this record-setting execution: The execution of Michael Benge will make headlines because he was Ohio's eighth lethal injection this year, a new record. But otherwise the storyline was similar to 40 others preceding it since 1999: drugs were to blame. Benge, 49, of Hamilton, Ohio, died today at 10:34 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville. While the drug that took his life, sodium thiopental, is in short supply nationally, the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction had an ample quantity on hand today to complete the grim task...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 06, 2010 (boomark / email).