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Stay Denied on Ohio One-Drug Execution

December 7, 2009 9:09 AM | Posted by Kent Scheidegger | 1 Comment | No TrackBacksAs noted in Friday's Blog Scan, the Sixth Circuit on that day denied rehearing en banc to the challenge to Ohio's since-abandoned three-drug method of execution. That controversy is moot, and the court noted that the new one-drug method was not before it.The day before, murderer Kenneth Biros had filed in the District Court a curiously titled "Emergency Motion of Intervenor-Plaintiff Kenneth Biros for a Temporary Restraining Order, or, at the very Least, for an Order under the All Writs Act Staying his Execution by Defendants and the State of Ohio." That motion was denied this morning in a grumbling 191-page opinion and order by District Judge Frost.Biros's attorneys have asked the Sixth Circuit for a stay, Andrew Welsh-Huggins reports for AP...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on December 09, 2009 (boomark / email).