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Ohio completes yet another uneventful one-drug lethal injection execution

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this local story, Ohio was able to complete with out obvious incident yet another execution this morning using its one-drug protocol: After playing the keyboard and crying in his cell, Michael Beuke -- the Hamilton County man known as the "homicidal hitchhiker" -- was executed today for a murder he committed nearly 27 years ago. Beuke, 48, succumbed to the lethal injection drug at 10:53 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville. Before the chemicals flowed into his bloodstream, he spent 17 minutes reciting the Rosary. He also recited an early Christian creed and the Lord's Prayer as tears rolled down his left cheek. Witnesses were shaking their heads before his repetitive statement was over, clearly impatient it went on so long...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 13, 2010 (boomark / email).