A prisons department spokeswoman said Ronald Phillips arrived at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville at about 10:15 a.m. Tuesday. That’s about 24 hours before he is set to die in Ohio’s first execution in more than three years.
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Father Lawrence Hummer had been told the lethal injection of Dennis McGuire would probably take about five minutes. Just about that much time had passed when something ghastly happened. “He started struggling for breath,” said Hummer, who knew McGuire from masses he celebrated for Ohio’s Catholic death-row prisoners and volunteered to be a witness at his January 2014 execution.