More on James Filiaggi execution:  Andrew Welsh-Huggins has this report, entitled "Man executed for killing ex-wife had record number of visitors."

Excerpt:
A man executed for chasing down and killing his ex-wife received the highest number of death house visitors - 24 - since Ohio resumed putting inmates to death in 1999, records show.James Filiaggi met with his mother and father, sisters, a Roman Catholic priest and numerous friends, most from Ohio University where Filiaggi attended college, before he was executed on Tuesday, according to a prison log of Filiaggi's last 26 hours reviewed by The Associated Press.

The log also revealed a little known fact about post-execution procedures in Ohio: Filiaggi was the seventh inmate whose body was anointed in oil and prayed over in a short religious ceremony by the prison systems' spiritual adviser.

Filiaggi, 41, was the 25th person executed in Ohio, the nation's second-busiest death penalty state, since 1999. Another execution is scheduled for next month. ...

Comments

[Valarie]

The associated press states that they read the prison log for the last 26 hours - I noticed that the entire log for the death house was released for Jeffrey Lundgren. Will it / is it available for all inmates killed in Ohio??

[Scott]

As I understand it, logs are typically released to a reporter or reporters a day or two after an execution in response to an informal type of FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request. The 26 hours mentioned in the article was the entire amount of time covered by the log for Filiaggi - and is a typical of the time logged in most cases, including (probably) for Jeffrey Lundgren.

Scott
(ODPI blog)