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Columbus, Ohio – Ohio’s efforts to restart executions, including a law shielding the source of its drugs, hit a new setback Thursday as a federal judge declared the state’s latest lethal injection process unconstitutional and delayed three executions, including one scheduled next month.
The ruling by Magistrate Judge Michael Merz in Dayton followed a weeklong hearing over the three-drug method Ohio planned to use Feb. 15 on death row inmate Ronald Phillips.
