COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to stop the execution of an Ohio inmate who strangled an elderly neighbor in 1994 and who last week tried to kill himself on death row by overdosing on pills.

Lawrence Reynolds Jr. had asked the high court for a delay while he challenged Ohio's lethal injection procedure. The court, without comment, refused to intervene in Tuesday's execution.

Reynolds was convicted of killing Loretta Foster, a 67-year-old widow who baby-sat kids in her neighborhood and lived three doors from him in their Cuyahoga Falls neighborhood near Akron.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court is deciding whether to delay the execution of an Ohio inmate challenging the state's lethal injection procedure and who last week overdosed on pills in a suicide attempt.

Lawrence Reynolds Jr. was convicted of strangling his 67-year-old neighbor in 1994 in Cuyahoga Falls.

His attorneys are asking the Supreme Court for more to time to make their case that Ohio hasn't corrected problems with accessing inmates' veins before a new single-drug method of lethal injection is used.

The 43-year-old Reynolds is being closely monitored as the state on Tuesday will try for a third time to execute him.