lethal injection Changes in protocol

Revisions to Ohio’s lethal injection protocol:

Allows executioners to use a second dose of sedative to ensure that a condemned inmate is sufficiently unconscious before fatal drugs are injected.

Requires prison warden to call the inmate’s name, shake shoulder and pinch upper arm to make sure inmate is unconscious.

Requires close inspection of intravenous connections to assure they are adequate to deliver proper doses of sedative and lethal injections.

Sets training requirements.

Source: Associated Press