Appeals court: Ohio lethal injection method constitutional

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal appeals court says Ohio's current lethal injection system does not pose an unconstitutional risk of suffering to condemned inmates.The court says the potential for suffocation posed by the three-drug method does not qualify as the type of "severe pain and needless suffering" prohibited by the Constitution.The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday in the case of Warren Henness, who was sentenced to die for the 1992 fatal shooting of a volunteer ad