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"Killer executed 1 week after suicide attempt"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this breaking news from the Columbus Dispatch.  Here are the essentials: Lawrence Reynolds died from an overdose this morning -- one legally administered by the state of Ohio.  The convicted killer from Akron, who unsuccessfully tried to take his own life with an overdose of a prescription medication on March 7, was declared dead at 10:27 this morning at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville.  The cause of death: a large, intravenous dose of thiopental sodium, a powerful anesthetic. Reynolds, 43, was convicted and sentenced to death for the Jan. 11, 1994, slaying of 67-year-old Loretta Foster, a widow who was one his neighbors in Cuyahoga Falls, an Akron suburb. Reynolds tried to sexually assault Foster before beating her with a wooden tent pole and strangling her...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 16, 2010 (boomark / email).