Harry Mitts was executed by the State of Ohio for the murder of his neighbor and a police officer
According to court documents Harry Mitts would shoot and kill his neighbor John Bryant. When the police came to investigate Mitts would shoot and kill Garfield Heights Police Sgt. Dennis Glivar
Mitts would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Harry Mitts would be executed by lethal injection on September 25 2013
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Harry Mitts was executed on September 25 2013
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Ohio used the state’s last available dose of the drug pentobarbital on Wednesday to execute a man described by prosecutors as a racist, who was convicted of killing a neighbor and then a police officer responding to the shooting.
Harry Mitts Jr., 61, was pronounced dead at 10:30 a.m. ET (1430 GMT) at the Southern Ohio Correctional facility, a state corrections department official said.
Mitts, who was white, was convicted in 1994 of killing a neighbor, John Bryant, and then shooting to death Ohio police officer Dennis Glivar as he responded to the shooting. Mitts also tried to kill two other police officers.
Prosecutors argued that Mitts was a racist who allowed two white people to flee unharmed before he shot Bryant, a black man, and used racial epithets during a standoff with police.
Mitts did not contest the evidence against him at trial, instead arguing that he was too intoxicated to form the required intent to kill.
Ohio’s supply of pentobarbital expires at the end of September and will no longer be legal for executions. The drug, a barbiturate used to relieve tension and relax patients before surgery, is lethal if given in high doses.
Ohio is the latest state forced to find alternate methods after pentobarbital’s Danish manufacturer Lundbeck cut off supplies to customers likely to use it for executions, in accordance with Danish law and European human rights law.
Ohio has said it plans to have a new execution drug protocol in place in October. The state is next scheduled to execute inmate Ronald Phillips on November 14.
Mitts was the 26th person executed in the United States so far in 2013 and the third in Ohio, according to the Death Penalty Information Center
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-execution-ohio-idUSBRE98O0ND20130925
