Gabriel City » Lethal Injection http://gabrielcity.com Gabriel City is a community for the tens of millions of Americans directly affected by our criminal justice system. We come together to share our stories and help to shape new ones. Inmates and the formerly incarcerated, family members of those serving time, men and women under community supervision, professionals in criminal justice and corrections, and the victims of crime; we support and respect each other as we work to break the endless cycle of crime and incarceration that afflicts our nation. Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:18:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Ohio’s New Execution Methods http://gabrielcity.com/news-and-journalism/ohios-new-execution-methods.html http://gabrielcity.com/news-and-journalism/ohios-new-execution-methods.html#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:17:35 +0000 hcdmedia http://gabrielcity.com/?p=2607 Today Kenneth Biros was executed in Ohio by a new form of one drug intravenous injection never before used on a human being. Anti-death penalty advocates have argued that a single drug is more humane than the three drug mix that is often used, though they still have concerns about this method.

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The ACLU of Ohio stated that the state must abolish lethal injection. “This is the third screwed-up execution in three years,” said Jeffrey M. Gamso of the ACLU of Ohio. “They keep tweaking their protocol, but it takes more than tweaks. They don’t know how to do this competently, and they need to stop.”

Read more in the New York Times article…

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