Ohio is on track to break a record for the number of death row prisoners executed in a calendaryear after the successful lethal injection of a two-time murderer for the 1989 death of a fellowCincinnati jail inmate.
Clarence Carter was executed yesterday at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. He was thesecond inmate in the nation executed with the surgical sedative pentobarbital.
He was the third Ohio inmate executed this year, keeping up the state's pace of one inmateper month.
Monthly executions are scheduled through October, a rate that would break last year's record ofeight in one year since Ohio resumed executions in 1999 after a 33-year hiatus.
The execution was sparsely attended, a possible sign that the procedure is now largelyconsidered commonplace.
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