Ohio Tries For 3rd Time To Execute Inmate

[The Straight Story]

Ohio Tries For 3rd Time To Execute Inmate


COLUMBUS, Ohio—The U.S. Supreme Court is deciding whether to delay the execution of an Ohio inmate challenging the state’s lethal injection procedure and who last week overdosed on pills in a suicide attempt.

Lawrence Reynolds Jr. was convicted of strangling his 67-year-old neighbor in 1994 in Cuyahoga Falls.

His attorneys are asking the Supreme Court for more to time to make their case that Ohio hasn’t corrected problems with accessing inmates’ veins before a new single-drug method of lethal injection is used.

The 43-year-old Reynolds is being closely monitored as the state on Tuesday will try for a third time to execute him.

Reynolds was to have been executed last week but was found unconscious in his cell and hospitalized.

His original execution date was postponed last fall while the state reviewed its execution procedure.

http://www2.nbc4i.com/cmh/news/local/article/ohio_tries_for_3rd_time_to_execute_inmate/33449/

[JitterbugPerfume]

1. The death penalty is barbaric

and needs to be abolished.

However I would not be against life without parole for the worst offenders.

[liberal N proud]

2. They had to get him healthy enough to execute

How barbaric

[Last_Stand]

3. What a waste of money...

just lock him up for life.