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Ohio Execution

By Steve Hall

The AP report is, "Ohio executes man who killed lover over ATM card," by Julie Carr Smyth.  It's via Google News. An Ohio man who bludgeoned his girlfriend to death and then stole her ATM card to buy crack cocaine apologized to the woman's family before he died by lethal injection Wednesday. Michael Benge's execution is Ohio's eighth lethal injection in 2010 ? the most put to death in a year since Ohio resumed capital punishment in 1999. The previous high was seven in 2004. Ohio's highest number of executions occurred in 1949, when 15 men died by electric chair. Ohio's execution total this year is second to Texas, which has put 16 people to death in 2010. Texas executed a record 40 people in 2000 ? the most since the state began using lethal injection in 1982...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 06, 2010 (boomark / email).