A family’s civil suit following a botched Ohio execution

Perhaps the most interesting of various new items at the Ohio Death Penalty Information blog is news of Ohio’s troubled execution of Joseph Clark last year now resulting in a federal civil lawsuit.  Here are some of the particulars from this post:

Irma Clark, the mother of Joseph Clark — whose botched May 2, 2006 execution by the State of Ohio took nearly 90 minutes — has filed a civil lawsuit against Ohio prison officials and execution team members in the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio seeking compensatory damages and a jury trial.  (Case is No. 07-0500.  Suit was filed today and assigned to Judge Michael Barrett.)

The relatively short complaint can be accessed here, and ODPI has links to some early press coverage.