One has to wonder if their reticence to try to execute this guy by injection is partially due to the amount of pentobarbital they'd have to use. Recent reports are that their supply is running low, and the pharmaceutical company refuses to provide any more for executions.

I've followed several death row last minute stays & reversals from following Ohio anti-death penalty friends and associates & reporting their news. It's scary to hear how some of the death row residents have been wrongly accused and convicted - not "just technicalities" but serious breaches of due process, seemingly willful. Part of my background has me saying "hang the guilty!!!!" but I'm seeing how easy it is for the innocent to be found guilty, particularly if poor.

As a poor Ohioan, I believe my chances of being found guilty of something I didn't do much higher than a rich Republican's chances. I can't come to lobby against the death penalty entirely, while willingly lobbying against it in SPECIFIC cases. I suppose that makes me wishy-washy in some views, but what else happens when you re-assess an opinion or your opinion evolves?

Joanne in Cleveland (so far only guilty in housing court for having a big dead tree in the yard)