LUCASVILLE, Ohio - Ohio has executed a convicted killer through the first U.S. lethal injection using a single drug, a longer but supposedly less painful method than previous executions with three drugs.
Kenneth Biros was pronounced dead at 11:47 a.m. Tuesday, about 43 minutes after he entered the death chamber at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville.
Ohio changed from three drugs to a one-drug method after a failed attempt at putting a different inmate to death in September. The new method uses a drug common for euthanizing pets.
Other states still use a combination of three drugs.
Biros was sentenced to die for killing a woman in 1991.
Ohio executes inmate with 1st-drug lethal injection
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