Ohio preparing for 1st execution in more than 3 years

Ohio is following a mandatory checklist for putting inmates to death as it prepares for the state's first execution in more than three years, a prisons agency official said.The state wouldn't release documents related to those checkups to The Associated Press, saying open records law shields such information."We can confirm, however, that to date all steps of Ohio's execution protocol have been complied with in preparation of the execution scheduled later this month," JoEllen Smith, prisons depa