Elisabeth Semel Approves Ohio’s Death Penalty Procedure, with Caveat

Los Angeles Times, November 14, 2009 by Carol J. Williams
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-lethal-injection14-2009nov14,0,2353684,print.story

“Ohio has taken an important step by abandoning the barbaric practice of paralyzing inmates before executing them,” said Elisabeth Semel, a law professor…. Semel added, however, that more medical information will be needed before courts can determine whether the one-drug method satisfies the 8th Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.