COLUMBUS: An Ohio inmate sentenced to die for killing a teenage boy during a burglary has asked a federal judge to delay his April execution while the state’s lethal injection procedures are reviewed.
The request by Mark Wiles is the latest in a series of such filings that have led to an unofficial moratorium on executions in the state.
The 48-year-old Wiles asked U.S. District Court Judge Gregory Frost on Wednesday to stop his April 18 execution on the grounds that Ohio hasn’t followed its own injection policies.
Federal courts have delayed two other executions this year over concerns that Ohio deviates too often from its written injection rules.
Wiles was sentenced to death for killing 15-year-old Mark Klima at a farmhouse in Portage County in 1985.
