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Seven face execution at end of moratorium
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November 17, 2011, Thursday
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Ohio could execute at least seven condemned killers next year now that an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment has ended in the US state and several prisoners on death row have exhausted the appeal process.
A US judge's examination of the state's execution procedures and an unrelated decision by Governor John Kasich to spare two prisoners halted executions for six months beginning in May.
Earlier this month, US District Judge Gregory Frost ruled the state had addressed his concerns about problems with Ohio's execution policies.
In so doing he refused to delay the execution of Reginald Brooks, who shot his three sons as they slept in 1982, shortly after his wife filed for divorce.
Brooks was executed on Tuesday. At 66, he was the oldest person put to death since Ohio resumed executions in 1999.
The next execution is due on January 18, when Charles Lorraine is scheduled to die for stabbing an elderly couple to death in their home in 1986.
Brooks was the fourth inmate in Ohio to be put to death using the surgical sedative pentobarbital as a standalone execution drug.
State and federal courts rejected legal arguments that Brooks was not mentally competent and that the government hid evidence that could have affected his case.
The execution was delayed by more than three hours as attorneys exhausted Brooks's appeals, and on Tuesday the US Supreme Court refused to halt the execution.
Defense attorneys made no comment immediately after the execution.
A US judge's examination of the state's execution procedures and an unrelated decision by Governor John Kasich to spare two prisoners halted executions for six months beginning in May.
Earlier this month, US District Judge Gregory Frost ruled the state had addressed his concerns about problems with Ohio's execution policies.
In so doing he refused to delay the execution of Reginald Brooks, who shot his three sons as they slept in 1982, shortly after his wife filed for divorce.
Brooks was executed on Tuesday. At 66, he was the oldest person put to death since Ohio resumed executions in 1999.
The next execution is due on January 18, when Charles Lorraine is scheduled to die for stabbing an elderly couple to death in their home in 1986.
Brooks was the fourth inmate in Ohio to be put to death using the surgical sedative pentobarbital as a standalone execution drug.
State and federal courts rejected legal arguments that Brooks was not mentally competent and that the government hid evidence that could have affected his case.
The execution was delayed by more than three hours as attorneys exhausted Brooks's appeals, and on Tuesday the US Supreme Court refused to halt the execution.
Defense attorneys made no comment immediately after the execution.
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