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Ohio Prison Staff Struggle to Find Condemned Inmate's Veins
Ohio prison staffers have been having trouble executing a killer because they can't find a vein.
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LUCASVILLE, OHIO — Ohio prison staffers have been having trouble executing a killer because they can't find a vein.
Christopher J. Newton, 37, was scheduled to die at 10 a.m. Thursday for killing another inmate.
Medical staff took 20 minutes to insert a shunt in the left arm of Christopher Newton, who was scheduled to die at 10 a.m. Thursday. It took them another half-hour to insert a shunt into his right arm.
Newton, who is in a holding cell, not the execution chamber, declined legal appeals and did not ask for clemency.
Newton says he strangled a prison cell mate because he got tired of him giving up during chess games.
Newton gave up on freedom years ago, purposely leaving a hand print during an attempted burglary of his father's home while on probation so he would get caught and return to the structure of prison.
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