While Ohio has no upcoming executions scheduled, the state is far from a slowdown in the final step of death penalty cases.

A story from the AP says, nearly 180 inmates remain on death row, and 41 of them have been there at least two decades. Ohio executed two men last year before an unofficial national moratorium on executions began.

That moratorium, which ended with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in April upholding the use of lethal injection, was followed by an execution in Ohio last month and another Wednesday.

Gregory Bryant-Bey, 53, a double murderer who said in a final statement he'd been framed and was the victim of poor legal help, was pronounced dead at 10:41 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville.

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