EXECUTIONS Recommendations

Documents unsealed Thursday by a Lorain County judge showed that Edwin C. Voorhies Jr., warden of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, made the following recommendations for improving the execution process in Ohio, following delays where an inmate’s veins could not be located:

Formalize vein inspection process; previously done during medical exam without the inmate’s knowledge. Propose briefing inmate and formally assessing viability of veins at primary injection sites.

Prepare a second complete set of syringes for contingencies.

Make provisions for the comfort of medical team members during insertion process (stools with wheels and adjustable seats).

Formally develop contingency plans for delays.

Source: Associated Press