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This week on "The State of Ohio": State lawmakers consider what they can do in the wake of the horrible and yet miraculous escape story out of Cleveland involving three women held prisoner in a house for a decade. New data shows more than half of all violent crimes are committed by a very small numbers of offenders. Lawmakers are now working to target that tiny group. And more thoughts on legislation that would dramatically change rules on unions in Ohio.
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| Attorney General plans to appeal judge's harshly-worded decision halting executions. |
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By Bill Cohen - January 12, 2012 |
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Ohio’s attorney general says there’s nothing substantially wrong with the protocol Ohio uses to execute death row inmates, and that’s why he’s appealing a federal court order that blocks a lethal injection that had been set for next week. Judge Gregory Frost ruled the next execution may not move ahead because corrections department staffers at a November execution did not follow their own new protocol that requires them to check an inmate’s medical chart and to confirm the drug being used. Attorney General Mike DeWine says any failures on that front during the last execution are not enough to justify halting the next one. He’s interviewed here by statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen. |
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Attorney General Mike DeWine with Bill Cohen (2:59) 
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| The latest glitch in Ohio’s execution process is prompting opponents of capitol punishment to renew their continued calls for a moratorium on executions…at least until an Ohio Supreme Court task force on the death penalty issues its findings. The foes say their first choice would be a more permanent end to Ohio’s death penalty, replacing executions with prison sentences of life with no chance for parole. |
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