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Ohio Prepares to Use Pentobarbital

By Steve Hall

Alan Johnson writes, "Use of new execution drug isn't what scares condemned man," for today's Colubus Dispatch. Condemned killer Johnnie Baston says he isn't worried about being the first person in the U.S. to be executed using a new drug. "New drug, old drug, it doesn't matter," said Baston, who is scheduled to be lethally injected March10. "The whole process should be eliminated." But Baston, 37, who was sentenced to death for the execution-style slaying of Toledo store owner Chong Mah during a robbery on March 21, 1994, acknowledges that he is "very scared" to die. "The fact that I'll be placed on a table and poisoned to death, I can't find any comfort in that. It's kind of a sick feeling...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 23, 2011 (boomark / email).