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Ohio Execution Was 1,000th Lethal Injection in US

By Steve Hall

"Ohio killer's lethal injection marks 1,000th in US," is Matt Leingang's AP report via Google News.A man who went on a 1992 Christmas holiday killing spree that left six people dead, including an 18-year-old mother gunned down at a pay phone, was executed Tuesday, the state's second execution in two weeks and the 1,000th lethal injection in the U.S. since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.Marvallous Keene, 36, who was convicted in five of the murders, chose not to file a late appeal over his death sentence.He died by lethal injection at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville ? seven days after Ohio's last execution. It was the fastest turnaround since the state executed two inmates in six days in 2004...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 22, 2009 (boomark / email).