It appears from the full investigation of the incident by CCI and DRC/OSC that Officer Putnam did not perform rounds as required by Post Orders. Additionally, it appears that Officer McCollister, and possibly Officer Putnam, did falsify the electronic log book for rounds.

No interviews were done of these employees by CCI after-action or DRC/OSC after action teams. Both employees are on administrative leave, and these facts were reported to the Ohio State Highway Patrol. CCI has been advised that the Ohio State Highway Patrol does not intend to bring criminal charges against Putnam and McCollister.

The report also says all six officers on death row units that night were relief officers without training specific to death row, and one of the officers was still on probationary status. On the training inadequacy:

Relevant Facts: On the night of the incident, 28 of the 39 security posts were filled with a relief officer. In the Death Row blocks that evening, all 6 officers were relief. Officer Putnam was a probationary officer.

Conclusions: When Death Row was first moved to CCI, a pool of relief officers received an additional 8 hours of training specific to Death Row Housing. This was done so that when a relief officer was placed on one of the Death Row ranges, they would be selected from this pool.That practice is no longer being followed.

Slagle was scheduled to be executed on August 7. The current prosecutor had told the parole board he did not oppose clemency and thought he should not be executed.

His Aug. 7 execution appeared on track despite the plea for mercy from the prosecutor in Cuyahoga County, home to Cleveland, who argued that Slagle should never have received a death sentence.

Prosecutor Tim McGinty cited Slagle's age — he was just 18 when he fatally stabbed his neighbor Mari Anne Pope — and a long history of drug and alcohol addiction. McGinty said under his office's current policy he would not have pursued a death penalty charge.

On August 1, the Slagle filed a motion for stay of execution which the prosecutors opposed. (They explain why they supported clemency but oppose a stay or motion to vacate his sentence.) His lawyer met with him on August 2. That evening, on the way home from the jail, Slagle's lawyer learned the prosecutors would not oppose a request for a stay on different grounds. Here is his lawyer's full account. Slagle's lawyers e-mailed the warden to request a meeting with Slagle on August 5 to tell him the news and their opinion that if the state didn't object to the stay, it would almost certainly be granted. By then, he was dead.

This is Ohio's 8th jail suicide this year. Ariel Castro's suicide was after Slagle's, and inmate James Blackburn committed suicide after Castro.