Thursday, September 26, 2013

LAST BATCH OF PENTOBARBITAL USED UP IN OHIO EXECUTION

Harry Mitts, Jr., 61, was executed Wednesday for the 1994 murders of a black man and a Garfield Heights police sergeant. His appeal, based on him having found God in prison, fell on deaf ears.

Mitts, a white man, went on a shooting rampage in 1994 at his suburban Cleveland apartment complex. Shouting racial slurs at his victim, he shot dead a neighbor’s black boyfriend. He then shot and killed the responding officer, a white police sergeant. Mitts also shot and wounded two other cops.

The State of Ohio used up its last batch of pentobarbital to carry out Mitts’ execution. The State is expected to announce its new execution drug early next month.

Death penalty abolitionists and human rights groups have coerced the manufacturers of pentobarbital into refusing to supply the lethal drug to capital punishment states for use in executions.

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