The state of Ohio decided to “run to their death row with a single injection.” The change in the law comes after the failed execution of inmate Romell Broom on September 19th.

Currently the death sentences is executing by giving three drugs to cause death, sodium tiopentate is injected in a single dose that induces unconsciousness; then a second dose of pancuronium bromide, where the muscles are relaxed until the prisoner gets paralysis and avoids any involuntary movement or spasm; third and last step is injected with potassium chloride, which paralyzes the heart, ending the life of the convict.

Now Ohio is going to use a single substance, sodium thiopental, which is adopted for human or animal euthanasia.

In partnerships Civil Rights United States, the system of the three applications was severely criticized for unconstitutional because it provides inhuman suffering.

Douglas A. Berman, a law professor at Ohio State University told the New York Times that “It is a victory for those who protested about the protocol of the three substances,” and that “However, opponents of the death penalty may have it more difficult to protest against the methods of execution if the courts support this new method and if Ohio is able to conduct executions without incident. ”

The state of Ohio established the methodology change fafter the failed execution of Romell Broom, who stated that “he received 18 punctures as nurses were unable to find a vein.”

Broom detailed to authorities the implementation process, and ultimately the state’s governor after two hours of trying, stopped the execution.

Kenneth Biros, will be the first sentenced to death who will receive this new method, and to be held in December for the rape and murder of a girl aged 14 in 1984.