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Ohio Schedules Seven New Execution Dates

By Steve Hall

Alan Johnson posts, "Ohio sets execution dates for seven killers," at the Columbus Dispatch. The Ohio Supreme Court today set execution dates for seven convicted killers, bringing to nine the total scheduled this year. One of those scheduled is Joseph D. Murphy, of Marion County. On Feb. 1, 1987, Murphy slashed the throat of 72-year-old Ruth Predmore, who had hired him to do yard work. Murphy is to be lethally injected on Oct. 18, the last of nine consecutive months in which an execution is scheduled. The court has a total of 14 death-penalty cases in which prosecutors asked that an execution date be set. However, the court delayed setting new dates for nine months. A court spokesman said yesterday that the delay was unrelated to concerns about a national shortage of the lethal-injection drug used in Ohio...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 08, 2011 (boomark / email).