COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio is preparing to put a condemned killer to death Wednesday, beginning with moving the inmate to the prison where he will be executed.Authorities typically transport inmates from death row in Chillicothe to the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville 24 hours before an execution. Gary Otte was sentenced to die for the 1992 killings of Robert Wasikowski and Sharon Kostura. Both slayings took place in Parma, in suburban Cleveland.The state plans to execute the 45-year-old Otte with a lethal combination of three drugs.On Friday a federal judge rejected Otte's argument that the first drug, a sedative called midazolam creates an unconstitutional risk of harm because it won't render him deeply unconscious enough.
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