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Ohio Prepares to Execute Severely Ill Condemned Prisoner

HeadlineNov 15, 2017

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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