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Ohio Set for Nation's First Execution Using Single Drug

Mar 10th 2011 – 6:44AM
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LUCASVILLE, Ohio - A man convicted of killing a storeowner was to be put to death Thursday with the country's first use of the surgical sedative pentobarbital as a stand-alone execution drug. The execution of death row inmate Johnnie Baston also would mark a move to make the process more public and give inmates speedier...

Ohio Executes Inmate With Untested Drug

Dec 8th 2009 – 6:09PM

(Dec. 8) -- An Ohio inmate, convicted of killing and dismembering a 22-year-old woman in 1991, was executed Tuesday using a new, untested one-drug method of lethal injection, state officials said. Kenneth Biros, 51, was pronounced dead at 11:47 a.m. at a prison in Lucasville, Ohio, the state attorney general's office said...

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