At approximately 10:30 AM this morning 61 year old Harry Mitts was pronounced dead at the Southern Ohio Correctional facility due to a lethal dose of the drug pentobarbital. Pentobarbital is a sedative that is used to relieve tension and relax patients that are being prepped for surgery, however in larger doses it can be lethal. Harry Mitts was convicted of the murder of his neighbor John Bryant and police officer Dennis Glivar. He was accused of being a racist due to racial slurs at the time of the crime, and also the fact that both victims were black and Mitts allowed multiple white people to go without shooting them. Mitts claimed that he was too intoxicated to be capable of doing such, however law enforcement found otherwise. The state of Ohio's supply of pentobarbital expires at the end of September, and will not be replenished because of the supplier not wanting to provide potential executioners. Ohio plans to have a new execution drug protocol take its place in October, with the next execution falling of November 14th.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/25/us-usa-execution-ohio-idUSBRE98O0ND20130925
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