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The attorney for an Ohio death-row inmate set for execution says the condemned man is sorry for killing two strangers 23 years ago and wants to give their families justice.

Attorneys for a 486-pound Ohio death row inmate claim that the execution procedure "simply will not work" on their client and will cause him a "torturous and lingering death." Ronald Post, 53, was sentenced to death in 1985 for the shooting death of Helen Vantz, a desk clerk at a motel in Elyria, Ohio.

An Ohio man who bludgeoned his girlfriend to death and then stole her ATM card to buy crack cocaine apologized to the woman's family before he died by lethal injection Wednesday.

A man convicted of murdering five children in 1992 in Cincinnati, Ohio, is scheduled to be executed at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, Tuesday morning.

A convicted killer, Kenneth Biros, was put to death by receiving a single shot, similar to the one used to euthanize animals.

A federal appeals court on Monday halted the execution of an inmate three weeks after problems with a lethal injection attempt.