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Appeals court upholds Ohio killer's execution

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, The Associated PressUpdated 6:36 PM Friday, December 4, 2009COLUMBUS, Ohio ? An appeals court on Friday refused to delay the execution of an Ohio inmate who could become the first person in the United States put to death with a single drug.The full 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to hear the challenge of Kenneth Biros, who is scheduled to die Tuesday for killing and dismembering a woman he met in a bar in 1991.A three-judge panel of the court ruled last week that the execution could proceed, because the state adopted a new method that Biros had not previously challenged. The full court upheld that decision Friday.Biros, however, has already filed a different challenge to the new one-drug method.One of the 6th Circuit judges said Friday that it was unlikely Biros would be successful in that new challenge...continue to full post

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