High court won't halt execution

Updated: Monday, 15 Mar 2010, 5:02 PM EDT
Published : Monday, 15 Mar 2010, 5:01 PM EDT

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to stop the execution of an Ohio inmate who strangled an elderly neighbor in 1994 and who last week tried to kill himself on death row by overdosing on pills.

Lawrence Reynolds Jr. had asked the high court for a delay while he challenged Ohio's lethal injection procedure. The court, without comment, refused to intervene in Tuesday's execution.

Reynolds was convicted of killing Loretta Foster, a 67-year-old widow who baby-sat kids in her neighborhood and lived three doors from him in their Cuyahoga Falls neighborhood near Akron.

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High court won't halt execution

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