Reynolds v. Strickland

ORDER

BOYCE F. MARTIN, JR., Circuit Judge, joined by COLE, Circuit Judge.

Lawrence Reynolds, an inmate on Ohio’s death row, seeks to stay his execution currently set for March 9, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. We regretfully DENY the stay.

Reynolds challenges Ohio’s lethal injection protocol under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. Reynolds was previously set to be executed on October 8, 2009. But, in light of alarming difficulties on Ohio’s part in executing several other death row inmates using the protocol in place at that time, we stayed Reynolds’ execution pending…