Inmate attempts suicide in bid to foil execution

Records in a US state show an inmate tried to commit suicide with an overdose of antidepressants two days before his scheduled execution to deny the state the chance to kill him.

Forty-three-year-old Lawrence Reynolds Jr was executed by lethal injection in Ohio on March 16 after a seven-day postponement. He had been found unconscious in his death row cell on March 7.