Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Ohio prepares for 1st US 1-drug execution


Ohio has begun final preparations for executing the first person in the U.S. to die by lethal injection with a single drug rather than a three-drug method.

The execution of Kenneth Biros, originally scheduled for 10 a.m., was delayed about an hour while Biros awaited word from the U.S. Supreme Court on a last emergency appeal.

The court turned down Biros shortly before 10 a.m. and prisons spokeswoman Julie Walburn said the execution would begin about an hour later.

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