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Death Row Inmate Who OD'd Back In Prison
3/9/2010 3:27:32 PM | The Associated Press

Officials say an Ohio inmate who intentionally overdosed on pills hours before his scheduled execution has returned to prison and is on suicide watch.

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Prisons spokeswoman Julie Walburn says 43-year-old Lawrence Reynolds Jr., who admitted taking an overdose, arrived at the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown at 12:20 p.m. Tuesday.

Walburn says Reynolds is isolated from other inmates and under constant observation by staff.

Reynolds was treated at a Youngstown hospital after he was found unconscious in his death row cell Sunday night.

The type of drug he used and why it was prescribed aren't being disclosed. How he accumulated the pills is under investigation.

Reynolds' execution for the 1994 murder of his neighbor in Cuyahoga Falls has been rescheduled to next week.

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posted at 3/9/2010 3:36:06 PM (20416)
misstia said:

keep him alive long enough to die!

posted at 3/9/2010 5:45:12 PM (20424)
KRobb633 said:

Why did they spend the time and money to keep this scumbag alive? Taking the overdose was the only good thing he has EVER done. They should have let him die. It would have save the taxpayers a ton of money.

posted at 3/9/2010 6:50:54 PM (20426)
magiccityman said:

Prisons spokeswoman Julie Walburn.
The type of drug he used and why it was prescribed aren't being disclosed. How he accumulated the pills is under investigation.
Who pays these peoples wages?.

posted at 3/9/2010 7:55:09 PM (20428)
BeckyMetzPfeiff53 said:

Who gives a twit what he consumed? It's just unfortunate he didn't pull off his own death. Now Ohio will use the taxpayers money AGAIN, to "investigate" how he hoarded these useless drugs? It was probably aspirin. He's too much of a yellow belly to go through with suicide. Hey, I have an idea! Since this creep seems to get off on using drugs to "escape", why don't they just keep him alive, and use him for experimental drug trials? I have more feeling for lab rats that this imbecile. Let's see if Strickland puts his tail between his legs, cowers off, and doesn't go through with this bottom feeder's death.
Maybe they'd like to investigate further? Laughable, if it weren't so true.

posted at 3/10/2010 9:15:55 AM (20435)
historybuff said:

Wasting good tax revenues again. So they have to make
sure he is healthy enough to be killed. Granted this
guy is a waste of space, but doesn't this mindset hit
you as bizarre? He tried to do himself in, but the
state makes an effort to save his sorry butt, only to
kill him in a week. Weird.

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