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By Meghan Barr
Associated Press
POSTED: 10:58 a.m. EDT, Jul 14, 2009
LUCASVILLE: A former truck driver who went on a multistate killing spree has been executed in Ohio for the murder of a Cincinnati-area man who gave him a ride in 1991.
Forty-five-year-old John Fautenberry of Oregon was pronounced dead at 10:37 a.m. today at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville.
Fautenberry was sentenced to death for the slaying of Joseph Daron Jr., who picked him up while he was hitchhiking on Feb. 17, 1991.
Fautenberry also confessed to killing a four people in three other states — Alaska, Oregon and New Jersey — during a five-month period in late 1990 and early 1991.
Fautenberry is the first inmate executed in Ohio since June 3.
Ohio has put 30 men to death since it reinstated the death penalty in 1999.
LUCASVILLE: A former truck driver who went on a multistate killing spree has been executed in Ohio for the murder of a Cincinnati-area man who gave him a ride in 1991.
Forty-five-year-old John Fautenberry of Oregon was pronounced dead at 10:37 a.m. today at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville.
Fautenberry was sentenced to death for the slaying of Joseph Daron Jr., who picked him up while he was hitchhiking on Feb. 17, 1991.
Fautenberry also confessed to killing a four people in three other states — Alaska, Oregon and New Jersey — during a five-month period in late 1990 and early 1991.
Fautenberry is the first inmate executed in Ohio since June 3.
Ohio has put 30 men to death since it reinstated the death penalty in 1999.
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Posted 11:29 AM, 07/14/2009
"Fautenberry is the first inmate executed in Ohio since June 3."
Does the writer get paid by the word?
Posted 11:41 AM, 07/14/2009
Yeah, I found that sentence a little odd.
Green, OH
Posted 11:56 AM, 07/14/2009
Should have happened long before now!
south of Akron, NO
Posted 12:02 PM, 07/14/2009
a liberal reporter, stating a liberal bias - that is why the sentence is in there. He wanted it to sound like an obsessive amount of executions, when in fact it isn't enough.
Fairlawn, Oh
Posted 12:13 PM, 07/14/2009
They whom take Human lives for the mere pleasure and joy to ones self shall surely pay for it with their own. "Thy Brother's blood cries up from the Earth" comes to this ones memory for one who hastened the end of another individual, and he paid dearly as well.
Posted 12:37 PM, 07/14/2009
That statement at the end of the article is something I recall reading before, probably back in early June when the last execution occurred.
I don't think it is anything more than a statement of fact. But then I don't see a conspiracy around every corner.
CFalls, OH
Posted 01:31 PM, 07/14/2009
That statement does seem out of place since June 3 and I'm assuming 2009 was only 41 days ago.
That's like me saying I haven't posted to an Ohio.com article since July 12, 2009; a big "Whup"!
Wadsworth, Oh
Posted 01:50 PM, 07/14/2009
Jimbo. Steve and weB1 are right. If the writer wanted us to think it was excessive he would have done the math and said the last execution was only 6 weeks ago.
Akron, OH
Posted 02:41 PM, 07/14/2009
Frankenberry, rot in hades.
