Supreme Court OKs One-Drug Execution

The Supreme Court today refused to halt the execution of an Ohio inmate, clearing the way for the nation's first death sentence to be carried out with a new single-drug injection. Kenneth Biros, the killer who scattered a woman’s body across several states, had argued that the new method would be painful. But experts say that, while it will take longer to kill him, it will not cause pain.

The single-drug injection is intended to stave off legal challenges to Ohio’s traditional three-drug cocktail, which death penalty opponents say can cause extreme pain. (More death penalty stories.)