Defense attorney says state's new exectution method is like 'burning at the stake'

Convicted killer Ronald Phillips has had five previous execution dates, including one postponed because he wanted to donate a kidney to his ailing mother. But Phillips' Jan. 12 death date could be the biggest legal showdown in Ohio's three-year lethal injection fight. Ohio's three-drug lethal injection procedure — to be used for the first time on Phillips — is compared to being "buried alive and burning at the stake" by his defense attorneys in a filing this week with the federal cou