A condemned inmate who overdosed on pills in a suicide attempt that delayed his execution by one week is now at Ohio's death house.
Authorities on Monday transported Lawrence Reynolds Jr. from the state prison in Youngstown to the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, which is home to the state's death chamber. The 43-year-old Reynolds is being closely monitored as the state on Tuesday will try for a third time to execute him. Reynolds was to have been executed last week but was found unconscious in his cell and hospitalized.
Reynolds' original execution date was delayed last fall after Gov. Ted Strickland announced a review of the state's lethal injection procedure. Reynolds robbed and strangled his 67-year-old neighbor in 1994 to get money to fuel his alcohol addiction.
