IN RE OHIO EXECUTION PROTOCOL LITIGATION

Case No. 2:11-cv-1016.

840 F.Supp.2d 1044 (2012)

In re OHIO EXECUTION PROTOCOL LITIGATION. This document relates to: Charles Lorraine.

United States District Court, S.D. Ohio, Eastern Division.

January 11, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Juhasz , Lynn A. Maro , Youngstown, OH, Jeffrey M. Gamso , Gamso, Helmick & Hoolahan, Spiros P. Cocoves , Toledo, OH, James P. Fleisher , Michael William Krumholtz , Kirstie N. Young , Bieser, Greer & Landis, Lawrence Joseph Greger , Greger Law Office, Gary Wayne Crim, Dayton, OH, Allen L. Bohnert , Carol Ann Wright , David C. Stebbins , Office of the Federal Public Defender, Randall Lee Porter , Gregory William Meyers, Robert Brady Barnhart , Ohio Public Defender's Office, S. Adele Shank , W. Joseph Edwards , Keith A. Yeazel , William Sheldon Lazarow , Columbus, OH, John B. Gibbons , David L. Doughten , Robert Aloysius Dixon , Timothy F. Sweeney , Jeffrey F. Kelleher , Jeffry F. Kelleher & Assoc., R. Brian Moriarty , R. Brian Moriarty, LLC, Kevin Cafferkey, Cleveland, OH, Michael J. Benza , Chagrin Falls, OH, Laurence E. Komp , Ballwin, MO, Kathleen McGarry , Glorieta, NM, Alan M. Freedman , Midwest Center for Justice Ltd., Carol R. Heise , Evanston, IL, Lori Ann McGinnis , Loudonville, OH, James V. Schuster , James Schuster & Associates, Cincinnati, OH, David Jan Graeff, Westerville, OH, for Plaintiffs.

Charles L. Wille , David M. Henry , Stephen C. Gray , Thomas E. Madden , Office of the Ohio Attorney General, Columbus, OH, for Defendants.


OPINION AND ORDER

GREGORY L. FROST, District Judge.

This case is frustrating.

For close to eight years, the Court has dealt with inmate challenges to the constitutionality of Ohio's execution protocol.1 During that time, the litigation has morphed from focusing primarily on allegations of cruel and unusual punishment to allegations of equal protection violations. Ohio has been in a dubious cycle of defending often...

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