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 LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court blocked the execution of a man who had been scheduled to die Tuesday for killing a woman in 1991 and scattering her remains across two states.
Inmate Kenneth Biros — and the family of the victim, Tami Engstrom — had waited for the decision more than six hours past his 10 a.m. scheduled execution time at Ohio's death house.
The justices' one-sentence decision agreed with two lower courts that delayed the execution so he could continue arguing that Ohio's method of lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.
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