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Tuesday, 29 May 2007
THE prison housing Death Row Scot Kenny Richey has come under fire after a second execution in a year was delayed because of problems with its medical staff.
Prison staff struggled on Thursday to insert shunts - the entry point for the needle which would administer the lethal injection - in the arms of Christopher Newton, who was scheduled to die for killing a prison cell-mate.
Members of the prison medical staff needed about 20 minutes to insert a shunt in the left arm and spent at least 30 minutes working on the right arm, said Leo Jennings, a spokesman for Attorney General Marc Dann.
A year ago inmate Joseph Lewis Clark's execution was delayed for more than an hour because the team could not find a vein.
Newton, 37, murdered cell-mate Jason Brewer, 27, in 2001, after a chess game turned violent and he had declined to seek any appeals in his case.
Death penalty opponents in the US have urged the state to halt all executions in the wake of the problems.
Richey, 42, who grew up in Edinburgh, has been on Death Row in Ohio for more than 20 years after he was sentenced to death in 1987 for the killing of two-year-old Cynthia Collins, who died in a fire in 1986.
He has always protested his innocence, and investigations into the case have found serious flaws in evidence used to convict him.
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