James Filiaggi was executed for the Jan. 24, 1994 killing of his ex-wife, Lisa Huff Filiaggi.

James Filiaggi was executed for the Jan. 24, 1994 killing of his ex-wife, Lisa Huff Filiaggi.
Filiaggi, 41, a death row volunteer who had given up his appeals in 2006 to speed up his sentence, reconsidered late last week and tried unsuccessfully to get the courts to delay his execution.
He died at 11:23 a.m. by injection, a process he had argued amounted to torture. The execution happened about an hour and a half later than scheduled at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility because prison officials had waited for the U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
The high court and three other courts ruled against Filiaggi within the 24 hours before his execution. He had sought to join other Ohio inmates in a lawsuit over the constitutionality of lethal injection, contending that the method constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
Filiaggi was the 1st inmate that Ohio put to death this year.
Filiaggi becomes the 14th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1071st overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.