A previously blocked execution for Biros set for December 8, 2009 went forward due to a change in Ohio's lethal injection policies. Convicted killer Kenneth Biros died at 11:47 a.m. at the state death house in Lucasville, Ohio. Biros was the first person in the U.S. executed using a single injection of thiopental sodium in place of the former three drug process.
Biros had been on death row was an Ohio death row inmate convicted of aggravated murder, attempted rape, aggravated robbery and felonious sexual penetration.
Biros, 51,admitted to killing Tami Engstrom during February 1991 in a fit of rage. Biros then cut up the body and spread various parts over a wide territory encompassing portions of northeast Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania.
According to an article in the NY Times, Ohio prison officials executed a death row inmate, Kenneth Biros, Tuesday with a one-drug intravenous lethal injection, a method never before used on a human.
The new method of execution involves a large dose of anesthesia, similar to how animals are euthanized.
Kenneth Biros was executed this morning despite his appeals that the single injection method of execution was "human experimentation." Ohio has put 32 people to death in the past decade.
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