High Court won’t stop execution of sick inmate

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio started final preparations Tuesday for executing a sick inmate who will be provided a wedgeshaped pillow to help him breathe as he’s put to death this week.

Death row prisoner Alva Campbell appeared to be out of options, with the U.S. Supreme Court refusing on Tuesday to stop the executionment.

Campbell arrived Tuesday at the state death house at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility.

His attorneys have argued he is too ill for a lethal injection and that he should be spared because of a brutal childhood.

Campbell, 69, became mildly agitated when officials tried lowering him to a normal execution position during an exam last month, according to a medical review by a physician contractor for the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.