From story by Tony Rizzo, BostonHerald.com:
“After a failed execution in September, the state of Ohio may have revolutionized capital punishment in America when it put a different inmate to death last month.
It executed Kenneth Biros on Dec. 8 with a single drug, marking the first time in the United States that a lethal injection was not done with a three-drug “cocktail” that has been the subject of numerous legal challenges in recent years. Death penalty experts think it’s highly likely that other states will follow Ohio’s lead.
Critics of the three-drug method repeatedly have suggested using just one strong sedative. That way, executioners would avoid the possibility of a condemned person suffering excruciating pain during the three-drug process, which is used in most capital punishment states and by the federal government.”