Ohio is on track to break a record for the number of death row prisoners executed in a calendar year after the successful lethal injection of a 2-time murderer for the 1989 death of a fellow Cincinnati jail inmate.
Clarence Carter was executed yesterday at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. He was the 2nd inmate in the nation executed with the surgical sedative pentobarbital.
He was the 3rd Ohio inmate executed this year, keeping up the state's pace of 1 inmate per month. Monthly executions are scheduled through October, a rate that would break last year's record of 8 in 1 year since Ohio resumed executions in 1999 after a 33-year hiatus.
The execution was sparsely attended, a possible sign that the procedure is now largely considered commonplace.
Source: Associated Press, April 13, 2011
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