Convict scheduled to be executed is revived by state after taking overdose

Given today's economy and the poor state of health care in this country, this story from AP really makes NO sense whatsoever:

Gov. Ted Strickland of Ohio on Monday postponed the execution of a convicted killer who managed to take an overdose of pills in his death row cell and was found unconscious just hours before he was to be driven to his execution. Lawrence Reynolds Jr., 43, who was sentenced to die ... was found unconscious around 11:30 p.m. Sunday at the Ohio State Penitentiary .... Reynolds, who was scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday, was showing signs of consciousness Monday at a Youngstown hospital ... The inmate took the pills despite being under a 72-hour watch - routine for inmates approaching an execution date - that includes frequent monitoring by prison guards outside the cell ... Strickland issued a seven-day reprieve and rescheduled the execution for March 16. .... He [the prisoner] had been scheduled to leave at 3 a.m. Monday for the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, where the state's death chamber is located.
Retrieved March 9, 2010 from: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/03/08/20100308inmate-ODs-on-pills-before-execution08-ON.html


Let me see if I understand this....

1. A prisoner somehow gets pills in his cell and ODs on them hours before leaving for the state facility where he is to be executed.
2. Instead of just letting him die a few days early, they spend untold amounts of money to a) stabilize him, b) transport him to a public hospital, c) bring him back to conscientiousness, and then d) delay his execution for another week?

How can a prisoner on death row got enough pills to OD?
If a prisoner is to be executed, why would any measures be taken to try and revive him?
How much money was spent on personnel at the prison to treat him?
How much money was spent on personnel and transportation to get him to the hospital?
How much time and money was spent by personnel at the hospital to bring him back to consciousness?
Was there someone else who could have used the emergency care provided to this prisoner?
Who is going to pay the cost of the personnel, equipment, and supplies used to treat this prisoner?
Are the costs going to come out of the prison operation funds and the governor's office budget?

Of course, the big question is why would you treat this prisoner in the first place? He was going to be dead in two days anyway!

Why not just let him get his wish to die earlier than planned? It would save the state the money, the time, and the personnel to put on the one ring circus show of an execution. Don't get me wrong here, I fully support executing someone who has been duly condemned. I am just objecting to the waste of government money to do it in this instance. Think of all the money that the state could have saved!

Can someone please explain why the governor would postpone the execution? Does it really matter whether he is fully conscious when you kill him? He will still end up dead either way!

Oh yeah, don't waste any more state money to determine how this could happen, why it happened, who messed up, or any one of a dozen other useless things that could be examined. It happened! Don't waste any more taxpayer money, and just move on!