Published: Sunday, March 18, 2007
BIROS EXECUTION
Final steps
These are the final steps being planned by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction leading up to the 10 a.m. Tuesday execution of Kenneth Biros:
Biros will be moved Monday to the Death House in the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville from his current quarters in the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown.
Six news reporters, three of victim Tami Engstrom's family members and two of Biros' lawyers are expected to witness the execution from two areas adjacent to the execution chamber.
History
From 1803, when Ohio became a state, until 1885, executions were carried out by public hanging in the county where the crime was committed.
In 1885, the Legislature enacted a law that required executions be carried out at the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus.
1897, the electric chair, considered to be a more technologically advanced and humane form of execution, replaced the gallows.In
The last execution by electrocution took place March 15, 1963. Lethal injection was used after that date.
In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the death penalty to be unconstitutional.
In 1974, the Ohio General Assembly revised Ohio's Death Penalty law, but the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the new law in 1978. As a result, 120 condemned prisoners, including four women, had their sentences commuted to life in prison.
Ohio's new death penalty law took effect in 1981, and executions resumed in 1999.
Source: Ohio Department of Rehabilitation & Correction
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