Ohio to appeal execution delay to U.S. Supreme Court

[Bill McBlueState]

Source: Toledo Blade

The state plans an immediate appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court of a decision delaying an execution three weeks after problems with a separate lethal injection attempt.

Ohio Attorney General spokeswoman Holly Hollingsworth says the state will file an appeal Monday opposing any delay in Thursday's planned execution of Lawrence Reynolds Jr.

A panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled 2-1 Monday to halt the execution of Reynolds, sentenced to die for strangling his 67-year-old neighbor in Cuyahoga Falls in 1994.

The judges based their decision on problems accessing the veins of condemned killer Romell Broom that led Gov. Ted Strickland to stop that execution Sept. 15.

Read more: http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091005/NEWS24/910059973

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(This is a follow-up to the announcement this morning of the appeals court's decision.)

[DavidDvorkin]

1. Kill kill kill!

Nothing must stand in the way.

[Soylent Brice]

2. for real, right?

[DavidDvorkin]

4. That does seem to be the state's attitude.

[Soylent Brice]

5. welcome to Ohio. n/t

[hmorehead]

3. I don't know which is sicker

executing people or finding medical reason to not execute them.

What part of "thou shalt not kill" does our society just not get?