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Staff struggle to find inmate’s veins
By Toledo Blade
Published: 05/25/2007

LUCASVILLE, OH - An obese man executed today for killing a prison cellmate chatted and laughed with state prison workers as they struggled to find veins in his arm to deliver the deadly chemicals, taking so long that at one point he was given a bathroom break.

Christopher Newton died at 11:53 a.m., nearly two hours after the scheduled start of his execution. It was the longest delay since the state resumed executions in 1999. Read more.

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