USA - Ohio. Daniel Wilson, 39, white, was executed

Daniel Wilson, 39, white, was executed at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville. Wilson was convicted and sentenced to death for kidnapping and killing 24-year-old Carol Lutz on May 3, 1991. Wilson was the 1st man executed in Ohio this year and the 1st ever to die under a revised lethal injection protocol initiated by the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction in response to criticism of the process as being "flawed" in a recent court case. The new protocol (see May 22) calls for 2 doses of sedative to be administered instead of just 1. That is followed by a paralytic drug and finally 1 that stops the heart. The policy also requires to warden to determine if the condemned man is truly unconscious by calling his name and shaking and pinching his arm. Wilson's execution was Ohio's 29th since resuming capital punishment in February 1999. Wilson becomes the 31st condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1167th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.