Lawyer accused of coaching death-row inmate in 'performance'

A lawyer for a Ohio killer whose slow, gasping execution with a new drug combination renewed questions about the death penalty was suspended temporarily amid an investigation into whether he coached the condemned man to fake symptoms of suffocation, it has emerged.

The Office of the Public Defender said Robert Lowe, one of the lawyers representing Dennis McGuire, was back at work after an internal review failed to substantiate the allegation.