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Ohio conducts first execution with single-drug lethal injection protocol

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

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[JURIST] Ohio prison officials on Tuesday conducted the first execution using a new single-drug lethal injection protocol. Death row inmate Kenneth Biros was executed after the US Supreme Court rejected a last-minute stay application Tuesday morning. The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit had rejected Biros's application for a stay of execution on Monday after overturning a previous stay issued by the district court last month. Biros's attorneys had argued that the use of the new procedure constitutes human experimentation, but some commentators have said that the single-drug protocol is more humane than the previous three-drug method. Biros was convicted of a 1991 murder and attempted rape. Ohio became the first state to adopt the single-drug protocol last month. The state undertook a review of its lethal injection practices in September after the planed execution of inmate Romell Broom failed when a suitable vein for the drugs' administration could not be found. The new protocol consists of the intravenous injection of a single anesthetic, and provides for the intramuscular injection of two other drugs if an appropriate vein cannot be found.

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on December 08, 2009 (boomark / email).