Legal challenges and a struggle to find lethal drugs have triggered a raging debate in Ohio and other states over the proper way to execute killers. The unavailability of certain drugs has led to changes in many death-penalty states and prompted the talk of executing methods that haven't been used for decades.
Bringing back firing squads, the electric chair and even gas chambers is being discussed in some parts of the country, while other states--most recently Maryland and Connecticut--are moving away from the death penalty.
Support for the death penalty has dropped nationally from a high of 80 percent in 1994. [Now it's around 50 percent.]
"Debate Rages Over Proper Way to Execute Criminals," Dayton Daily News, February 2, 2014
Bringing back firing squads, the electric chair and even gas chambers is being discussed in some parts of the country, while other states--most recently Maryland and Connecticut--are moving away from the death penalty.
Support for the death penalty has dropped nationally from a high of 80 percent in 1994. [Now it's around 50 percent.]
"Debate Rages Over Proper Way to Execute Criminals," Dayton Daily News, February 2, 2014
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