Execution date set despite Ohio not having lethal drugs
The Ohio Supreme Court has set an execution date for a condemned killer over the objection of two justices who question establishing dates when the state doesn't have any lethal drugs.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The Ohio Supreme Court has set an execution date for a condemned killer over the objection of two justices who question establishing dates when the state doesn't have any lethal drugs.
The court ruled 5-2 on Friday to schedule James Frazier's execution for Oct. 17, 2019. He is set to die for the 2004 slaying of a woman in a Toledo apartment building where both lived.
The decision means Ohio now has 25 death row inmates with firm execution dates beginning early next year at a time when the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction still can't find drugs to put them to death with.
Justice Paul Pfeifer (PEYE'-fuhr) says in a dissenting opinion that it serves "no rational purpose" to continue to set execution dates without drugs on hand.
This story has been corrected to show Ohio has 25 inmates with firm execution dates, not 26.
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