Case: State v. Rivera

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) This case challenged the Ohio lethal injection protocol as constituting cruel and unusual punishment, thereby violating the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and the Ohio Constitution. The defendant was indicted in August 2004 for multiple offenses, including aggravated murder with a death specification. In 2006, the defendant sought to dismiss the death specification from the indictment, challenging Ohio's method of lethal injection as unconstitutional.