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Ohio kills

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

via AP Ohio has executed a man convicted in a 1992 Christmas holiday killing spree that left six people dead and two wounded.Marvallous Keene died by lethal injection at 10:36 a.m. Tuesday at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, one week after the state’s last execution. The 36-year-old Keene and three accomplices went on a three-day murder and robbery rampage in Dayton that began on Christmas Eve 1992. The victims included an 18-year-old mother gunned down at a pay phone, a convenience store clerk and two teenage acquaintances whom Keene feared would tell police about his crimes. Prosecutors say Keene was the triggerman in four of the five deaths for which he was convicted. His three accomplices are serving life sentences.continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on July 21, 2009 (boomark / email).