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Ohio moves to ban electric chair over staff stress
Ohio prison officials seek to remove the electric chair, urging lethal injection as the sole method. Regulators cite staff stress and possible malfunctions, noting upcoming execution for John W. Byrd Jr and historical electrocutions dating back to 1963. Gov Taft supports elimination.
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