Injection Problems Delay Ohio Execution
Problems Administering Injection Cause Hour Delay in Ohio Execution of Convicted Kille
By ERICA RYAN
LUCASVILLE, Ohio May 2, 2006 (AP)— Difficulty in setting up the lethal injection caused a delay of more than an hour in Tuesday's execution of a man convicted of killing a gas station clerk during a series of robberies.
Joseph Lewis Clark, 57, died at 11:26 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. He was sentenced to die in November 1984 for killing David Manning.
The execution was set to begin at 10 a.m., but was delayed as the team worked to find a vein in his right arm to administer the injection. Clark said "these don't work" and "they're not working" as the team tried to start the injection.
After 25 minutes of trying to find a vein, a curtain was pulled over the window separating witnesses from the area where the execution was to take place. Clark was heard moaning and groaning and when the curtain was reopened he had two shunts in his arm.
"This has never happened," prisons spokeswoman Andrea Dean said of the delay.
(snip/...)
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1913849~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Article published Monday, May 1, 2006
1984 RAMPAGE
Clark faces his day of reckoning for slaying
Execution is slated tomorrow morning
By JIM PROVANCE
BLADE COLUMBUS BUREAU
He'd done "some things wrong, some crimes" and needed prayer so he wouldn't do them again, the caller who identified himself as Joe Clark told a minister on a Toledo religious radio program late on the night of Sunday, Jan. 15, 1984.
"I just want to get them out of my life," he said. "I want to get close to God."
The minister urged him to stay on the line so his screener could get information off the air and the minister could personally visit him. The caller hung up.
It's unclear what Joseph Lewis Clark was looking for that night.
(snip/...)
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060501/NEWS24/605010338