COLUMBUS, Ohio-- An Ohio inmate facing death next week for strangling his elderly neighbor has been denied an execution delay that would have let him challenge the state's new lethal injection policy.
A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously Friday against the request by Lawrence Reynolds, scheduled to die Tuesday.
Judge Boyce Martin says the request is denied "regretfully" and argues the court hasn't properly given inmates time to dispute Ohio's new one-drug injection.
He says the court must abide by its decisions earlier this year and last year that denied similar requests.
The 43-year-old Reynolds says the state hasn't corrected problems with accessing veins and that a new backup method that injects lethal drugs into muscle is untried and could cause pain.
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