USA: Further information: Stay of execution lifted in Kenneth Biros case

Index Number: AMR 51/119/2009
Date Published: 26 November 2009
Categories: USA

A federal court has lifted the stay of execution in the case of Kenneth Biros, who is now due to be put to death in Ohio on 8 December under the state’s new lethal injection procedures. The Ohio parole board has voted against clemency, but this vote is not binding on the governor.