Court Report

Ohio Inmate ODs on Pills Hours Before Execution

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Gov. Ted Strickland postponed the execution of a convicted killer who managed to take an overdose of pills in his death row cell and was found unconscious just hours before he was to be driven to his execution. Lawrence Reynolds Jr., 43, who was sentenced to die for killing his neighbor in 1994, was found unconscious around 11:30 p.m. Sunday at the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown, prisons spokeswoman Julie Walburn said. Read more...
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