A federal appeals court paved the way on Wednesday for Ohio to resume executions by lifting a lower court's decision to halt the state's lethal injection process.
It was a contentious decision that split the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges in an 8-6 vote.
In the case brought by death row inmates, the judges focused on the effects of the sedative midazolam, one of the three lethal injection drugs used by Ohio.