Ohio drops problematic 2-drug lethal injection method, delays upcoming execution
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Ohio says it's dropping the two-drug combination used in the troubling 26-minute of an inmate a year ago during which the prisoner repeatedly gasped and snorted.
The state prisons agency also says it's adding a drug to the lethal injection system that it previously used from 1999 through 2011.
The Department of Rehabilitation and Correction said Thursday that the Feb. 11 execution of a condemned child killer is being delayed as the agency secures supplies of the new drug.
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The state said in addition to delaying the execution of Ronald Phillips, set to die for the 1993 rape and killing of his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter, other executions might also be delayed.
It's unclear where Ohio might get supplies of thiopental sodium, the anesthetic drug it's bringing back.