Ohio prison officials to face future executions with new drug to replace expired supply
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Ohio is looking to the future of its execution procedure after its drug supply expired with the lethal injection of a white gunman who had spewed racial slurs before fatally shooting a black man and a police officer in a 1994 rampage.
Sixty-one-year-old Harry Mitts Jr. died at 10:39 a.m. Wednesday after a lethal injection of the sedative pentobarbital. He had been convicted in the killings of a neighbor's black boyfriend and a white Garfield Heights police sergeant.
Prisons director Gary Mohr says Ohio is on track to tell a court by Oct. 4 how executions will proceed now that its drug supply has expired.
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An agency lawyer said earlier this year legislation may be needed to protect specialty pharmacies that might mix supplies of future execution drugs from sanctions.