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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Gov. Ted Strickland on Monday postponed the execution of a convicted killer who overdosed on pills in his death-row cell and was found unconscious just hours before he was to be driven to his execution.
Lawrence Reynolds Jr., 43, who was sentenced to die for killing his neighbor in 1994, was found unconscious about 11:30 p.m. Sunday at the Ohio State Penitentiary, said prisons spokeswoman Julie Walburn.
Walburn did not say what kind of pills Reynolds took or how he got them, and an investigation is underway.
Strickland issued a seven-day reprieve and set the execution for March 16.
