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November 15, 2017

Ohio Prepares to Execute Severely Ill Condemned Prisoner
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The state of Ohio is set to put a severely ill prisoner to death this
morning, after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to halt his planned
execution. Officials at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in
Lucasville say they'll provide a wedge-shaped pillow to 69-year-old Alva
Campbell to help him breathe while they strap him to a gurney and inject
him with a lethal three-drug cocktail. Campbell relies on a walker and
wears a colostomy bag. His lawyers say he requires frequent breathing
treatments and may have lung cancer. During a recent exam, a doctor
failed to find veins in either of Campbell's arms suitable for inserting
an IV.


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