Ty Alper Believes Ohio’s Lethal Injection Mishap Could Happen in California

-Dayton Daily News, September 19, 2009 by Tom Beyerlein
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/crime/should-doctors-be-allowed-to-assist-in-the-execution-of-death-row-inmates-307631.html

Ty Alper, associate director of the Death Penalty Clinic … said, “I think what happened with Mr. Broom should give no one confidence in the process or the people. Mr. Broom had to help them. I mean, the whole thing is kind of ghoulish.”

-KTVU, September 23, 2009 by Rita Williams
http://www.ktvu.com/video/20958350/index.html

“There’s no reason to think what happened in Ohio cannot happen in California. The lethal injection protocols that the state has proposed using in California have no provisions for what will happen, what prison officials are supposed to do, if they can’t obtain access to an inmate’s veins…. We should care because we have a constitution that requires that executions are humane.”