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| Ohio won't use controversial drug combo for executions anymore |
| By vagazette.com- Matt Pearce |
| Published: 01/09/2015 |
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Ohio will no longer use an experimental combination of lethal injection drugs that had been administered in two widely criticized executions in the U.S. last year, state officials announced Thursday. The announcement comes as a federal judge was set next week to lift a months-long ban on capital punishment in Ohio, which last year became one of several legal battlegrounds over lethal injection procedure. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction officials said their decision would probably set back the Feb. 11 execution date for Ronald Phillips, who was convicted of the 1993 beating, rape and murder of his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter. Read More. |
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