Ohio tries for 3rd time to execute inmate

COLUMBUS (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court is deciding whether to delay Tuesday’s execution of an Ohio inmate who strangled an elderly neighbor in 1994 and who last week overdosed on pills in a suicide attempt.

Lawrence Reynolds Jr. met with mental health staff today as his case went to the high court. He remained under constant observation at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, which houses the state’s death chamber. But a suicide watch was lifted, said prisons spokeswoman Julie Walburn.

Reynolds, 43, was convicted of killing Loretta Foster, a 67-year-old widow who baby-sat kids in her neighborhood and lived three doors from him in their Cuyahoga Falls neighborhood near Akron.