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Third Use of Ohio Single-Drug Lethal Injection

By Steve Hall

Alan Johnson files, "Convenience-store killer executed by lethal injection," for the Columbus Dispatch.After 16 years of litigation capped by a last-minute flurry of appeals in four courts, Mark Brown was executed this morning for gunning down a Youngstown store owner and an employee in Youngstown market. Brown, 37, was declared dead at 10:49 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville. Brown had no last words.  He was the third person put to death in the nation using Ohio's one-drug lethal injection process.The chemical started flowing at 10:40 a.m.  At 10:41  Brown closed his eyes and yawned. He was silent and there was movement after that.And:Brown was the second Ohioan executed this year and the 35th in the almost 11 years since capital punishment was resumed...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 04, 2010 (boomark / email).