A Cleveland Plain Dealer article yesterday relates that Ohio Gov. John Kasich last Friday delayed the execution of Billy Slagle by nearly two years, until Aug. 7, 2013, as the state “continues efforts to tighten up its capital punishment procedures.”
Last July, U.S. District Judge Gregory Frost issued an injunction stopping the execution of Kenneth Smith, there criticizing the state's execution procedures and causing the corrections department to revise its practices. His execution has not been rescheduled.
Hearings & schedules in that case have been revised thru December when a non-oral hearing on all motions for summary judgment will be heard.
Slagle, for his part in the District Court case, has a hearing scheduled on a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction next week
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