AP: Condemned inmate who asked to die by lethal injection killed himself

By Ken Ritter

Ken Ritter, reporter, Las Vegas, for smart use of a tip from a source he had cultivated over the past four years. Ritter was first to report that a condemned inmate who had asked to be put to death by lethal injection, but whose execution had been twice called off by a court fight over the drugs to be used, had killed himself in his prison cell.