"Ohio postponing execution as it awaits word from US Supreme Court on lethal injection policy," is the updated AP filing, via the Star-Tribune.
Ohio won't go forward with an execution that had been scheduled for this week as it asks the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that the state's protocol for lethal injections is constitutional.
Forty-five-year-old Charles Lorraine had been scheduled to die Wednesday, but a U.S. district judge halted the procedure last week, saying the state had failed to follow its own rules for executions. A federal appeals court agreed that the execution should be delayed while those changes and reasons for them are reviewed.
Attorney General Mike DeWine and Gov. John Kasich announced Sunday that the state was appealing to the U.S Supreme Court.
An earlier version is, "Ohio taking Charles Lorraine death penalty case to U.S. Supreme Court," via the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling supported an earlier decision by U.S. District Court Judge Gregory Frost, who criticized the state for deviating from policy when an inmate was executed in November.
Earlier coverage of Ohio lethal injection issues begins at the link.
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