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A death in the rust belt

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

via NYT: A man who burned a woman alive was executed in Ohio?s first death by lethal injection since the state revised its protocol on the procedure. The man, Daniel Wilson, 39, was sentenced to death for the 1991 slaying of Carol Lutz, 24. He locked Ms. Lutz in the trunk of her car and set it on fire after they spent several hours drinking at a bar near Cleveland. He was pronounced dead at 10:33 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. The new protocol allows an additional dose of sedative to ensure an inmate is unconscious before lethal drugs are administered. The second dose was available on Wednesday for the first time but was not used, said Andrea Carson, a spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on June 04, 2009 (boomark / email).