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Ohio Prepares for Single-Drug Lethal Injection

By Steve Hall

Kenneth Biros is scheduled to be executed by Ohio tomorrow morning.  Attorneys for Biros are challenging the new procedure.  Here's a roundup of the latest developments."Judge In Ohio Rejects Stay In 1st 1-drug Execution," is the AP report filed earlier this morning.  It's written by Andrew Welsh-Huggins.A federal judge on Monday denied an emergency delay in the execution of an Ohio inmate scheduled to become the first person in the U.S put to death with a single drug. In the ruling, U.S. District Judge Gregory Frost in Columbus said Ohio's execution system still has flaws that "raise profound concerns and present unnecessary risks." But the judge also wrote, it appears unlikely that Kenneth Biros can "demonstrate that those risks rise to the level of violating the United States Constitution...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 07, 2009 (boomark / email).