Terry Lenamon on the Death Penalty : Lawyer & Attorney Terry Lenamon on Capital Punishment Defense, Death Penalty Trials & Appeals | Law Firm

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This past Sunday, the New York Times responded to the horrific execution of Ken Biros by the State of Ohio last week.  Yes, where Biros was killed in the same way that your vet euthanizes dogs and cats.  Yes, where Ohio ran ahead and used a new method of execution that hasn't been vetted, allowing Biros to be a human guinea pig.

In a succinct, well-written opinion piece, the New York Times shares in the horror of what Ohio has done.  From its offices in Manhattan, the Times states it plainly:  "There is no Humane Execution." 

Of course, the editorial has its critics.  At Sentencing Law & Policy, for example, the New York Times piece is challenged -- most interestingly, for its suggestion that the Texas case of Cameron Todd Williamham is a fluke:  

"Finally, as serious students of the death penalty know, the Willingham case is the closest we've gotten to a clear showing an innocent person may have been executed; to suggest that a large number of innocent people have quite likely been put to death is especially misguided."

From our post dated 09/11/09, here are the names of the innocent setting on Death Row per the Innocence Project as of that day - visit our earlier post for links to each man's individual story, as told by the IP:

Kirk Bloodsworth

Rolando Cruz

Alejandro Hernandez

Verneal Jimerson

Dennis Williams

Robert Miller

Ron Williamson

Ronald Jones

Earl Washington

Frank Lee Smith

Charles Irvin Fain

Ray Krone

Nicholas Yarris

Ryan Matthews

Curtis McCarty

Kennedy Brewer

Michael Blair