After more than a three-year hia­tus, Ohio plans to car­ry out the first of 27 scheduled executions

Discussions With DPI

Ohio has not car­ried out an exe­cu­tion since the botched exe­cu­tion of Dennis McGuire in January 2014, but is sched­uled to resume exe­cu­tions on July 26, 2017. In the past sev­er­al years, the State has revised its lethal-injec­tion pro­to­col and has cre­at­ed a task force that stud­ied Ohio’s death-penal­ty sys­tem. DPIC’s Executive Director Robert Dunham talks with Michael Benza, Senior Instructor in Law at Case Western Reserve University and vet­er­an cap­i­tal defense attor­ney, about the results of the task force’s study, the con­cerns about going for­ward with exe­cu­tions, and the sta­tus of the lethal-injection litigation.