Ohio executes man after delays over lethal injection drugs
Ohio put to death on Wednesday a 43-year-old man convicted of raping and killing a three-year-old child in what was the state's first execution in more than three years after a lengthy legal dispute over the choice of lethal injection drugs. Ronald Phillips was pronounced dead at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville at 10:43 a.m. EDT (1443 GMT), the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction said in a statement. The execution had been delayed multiple times as a court fight played out over the state's use of a drug ...
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