Double-murderer Gregory Bryant-Bey of Toledo was executed this morning for a crime he committed 16 years ago.
Bryant-Bey, 53, of Toledo, was lethally injected at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville, drawing his last shallow breath just before 10:41 a.m. He was the 2nd Ohioan put to death this year and the 28th since the state resumed capital punishment in 1999.
"My heart was seeking a sense of fairness and a dose of justice, but it was not to be," Bryant-Bey said, his last words as he lie on the lethal injection table, clutching a rosary.
He also made an extensive statement claiming he was framed "based on false evidence" by Lucas County law enforcement officials. He read his final words from a hand-written 2 page statement.
Bryant-Bey was convicted for the stabbing deaths of Dale "Pinky" Pinkelman, 47, and Pete Mihas, 61, during a 3-month span in 1992. He was sentenced to death for Pinkelman's murder, but got life in prison for the Mihas killing.
His guilt was easily established in both cases. Still, Bryant-Bey's attorneys had urged Strickland to spare his life, arguing he was twice abandoned as a child by his birth mother, was neglected and beaten by his adoptive mother, and never met his real father. As a child, he had just 2 emotions, "fear and anger," they said.
Strickland rejected clemency yesterday afternoon and the U.S. Supreme Court turned down his appeal late last night.
Pinkelman, a father of 6, was found stabbed in the chest in his Toledo collectibles shop on Aug. 9, 1992. Mihas, a Greek immigrant who owned the Board Room restaurant in Toledo, was murdered, also with a knife, in the parking lot of his business about three months later.
In both cases, Bryant-Bey robbed the businesses, but did not take the men's personal jewelry. However, he removed the victim's pants and left their shoes neatly arranged beside the bodies.
Bryant-Bey becomes the 2nd condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Ohio and the 28th overall since the state resumed capital punishment in 1999.
Bryant-Bey becomes the 34th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1133rd overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.
Sources: Associated Press & Rick Halperin
Bryant-Bey, 53, of Toledo, was lethally injected at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville, drawing his last shallow breath just before 10:41 a.m. He was the 2nd Ohioan put to death this year and the 28th since the state resumed capital punishment in 1999.
"My heart was seeking a sense of fairness and a dose of justice, but it was not to be," Bryant-Bey said, his last words as he lie on the lethal injection table, clutching a rosary.
He also made an extensive statement claiming he was framed "based on false evidence" by Lucas County law enforcement officials. He read his final words from a hand-written 2 page statement.
Bryant-Bey was convicted for the stabbing deaths of Dale "Pinky" Pinkelman, 47, and Pete Mihas, 61, during a 3-month span in 1992. He was sentenced to death for Pinkelman's murder, but got life in prison for the Mihas killing.
His guilt was easily established in both cases. Still, Bryant-Bey's attorneys had urged Strickland to spare his life, arguing he was twice abandoned as a child by his birth mother, was neglected and beaten by his adoptive mother, and never met his real father. As a child, he had just 2 emotions, "fear and anger," they said.
Strickland rejected clemency yesterday afternoon and the U.S. Supreme Court turned down his appeal late last night.
Pinkelman, a father of 6, was found stabbed in the chest in his Toledo collectibles shop on Aug. 9, 1992. Mihas, a Greek immigrant who owned the Board Room restaurant in Toledo, was murdered, also with a knife, in the parking lot of his business about three months later.
In both cases, Bryant-Bey robbed the businesses, but did not take the men's personal jewelry. However, he removed the victim's pants and left their shoes neatly arranged beside the bodies.
Bryant-Bey becomes the 2nd condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Ohio and the 28th overall since the state resumed capital punishment in 1999.
Bryant-Bey becomes the 34th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1133rd overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.
Sources: Associated Press & Rick Halperin
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