The state governor then delayed next month's execution of Darryl Durr, until a judge hears arguments over problems with the injection process.

BBC: Ohio governor delays executions

When he famously gained a manufacturing foothold with the plastic flowers in the 1950s, he says, he was able to engineer critical molding machinery with an injection process made using a Coca-Cola (nyse: KO - news - people ) bottle and a plastic straw, using something he saw in Modern Plastics as a guide.

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Dahlia, what exactly do these death row inmates say is the matter with the lethal injection process?

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