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The independent news website of The Kent Stater & KSTV

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Ohio killer’s execution takes almost 25 minutes

Andrew Welsh-Huggins January 16, 2014

 LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A condemned man appeared to gasp several times and took an unusually long time to die — more than 20 minutes — in an execution carried out Thursday with a combination of...

News on the go: January 17, 2014

Matthew Merchant January 16, 2014

The execution of a death-row inmate in Lucasville, Ohio is being called “a failed, agonizing experiment” after an untried method of lethal injection was used in the process. Officials said it took...