Killer faces new execution method The Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A condemned killer scheduled to become the first person in the U.S. put to death with a single drug — in an execution that could take longer than previous procedures — arrived Monday at the Ohio death house. Kenneth Biros, 51, was sentenced to die today for killing and dismembering a woman he met in a bar in 1991. It would be the first lethal injection under Ohio’s switch from using three drugs to a new one-drug execution method. In the event that method fails, a backup plan allows executioners to inject drugs directly into muscles. Ohio overhauled its procedure after the failed attempt to execute Romell Broom, a procedure halted by Gov. Ted Strickland in September. Executioners tried for two hours to find a usable vein for injection, hitting bone and muscle in as many as 18 needle sticks that Broom said were very painful. Broom, 53, has appealed the state’s attempt to try again.
I thought this was going to be news that the Taliban was going to start using " full size swords" instead of those little steak knives they were using to cut heads off with--
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