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.

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.

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