Inmates on Ohio's death row are going to have less contact with visitors, more inspections of their property, and tighter rules on their medications. That's all because of a drug overdose earlier this month by inmate Lawrence Reynolds Junior....an incident that delayed his lethal injection.
Source: WCPN News, March 25, 2010
Ohio Death Row Inmate Overdosed On Antidepressant
State records show that an Ohio inmate tried to commit suicide with an overdose of antidepressants 2 days before his scheduled execution to deny the state the chance to kill him.
Forty-three-year-old Lawrence Reynolds was executed by lethal injection on March 16 after a 7-day postponement. He had been found unconscious in his death row cell on March 7.
An investigation released by the Ohio prisons department Thursday says Reynolds took about 30 prescribed tablets and likely "cheeked" the pills and stockpiled them.
The report says medical and security staff failed to properly monitor Reynolds' medication intake and to search him.
An investigator writes that Reynolds "stated that his intention was to end it and not give the state any satisfaction of killing him."
Source: Associated Press, March 25, 2010
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