Commentary; Execution Exposes Inhumanity of Death Penalty

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When attorney Stephen Ferrell turned on the news Wednesday morning, he didn't see a single item about the pending execution of his client, Death Row inmate Lewis Williams. "What struck me with this one is that there was nothing," Ferrell said. "This has become commonplace. No one cares."

When Wilford Berry was executed in 1999, hundreds of protesters and dozens of media satellite trucks converged outside the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. He was the first Ohio prisoner to be put to death in nearly 40 years. Williams, the ninth, attracted a handful of protesters - the true believers - and a few reporters. Execution, it seems, has become routine business in Ohio.

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Commentary; Execution Exposes Inhumanity of Death Penalty

In all likelihood, his death by lethal injection would have garnered scant attention. But something happened at 10:07 a.m. Wednesday that proved that the execution process can never be "routine."

Williams did not go quietly into th...

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