Ohio executes multistate killer John Fautenberry Death at the State Prison in Lucasville

ohio-executes-multistate-killer-john-fautenberry-death-at-the-state-prison-in-lucasville The U.S. Supreme Court executes multistate killer John Fautenberry death. John Fautenberry, 45, was pronounced dead at 10:37 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, about two hours after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request to delay his execution on a claim that he had brain damage.

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a request to delay the Ohio execution of an Oregon trucker who confessed to slayings in four states.

John Fautenberry is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the state prison in Lucasville.

He was sentenced to death for murdering 46-year-old Joseph Daron Jr. of Milford who gave the hitchhiking Fautenberry a ride in the Cincinnati area in February 1991

Fautenberry has also confessed to killing four people in three other states — Alaska, Oregon and New Jersey in late 1990 and early 1991.

The 45-year-old Fautenberry spent his final hours watching television and meeting with a priest.

Fautenberry gave up his right to a trial by jury in Cincinnati and pleaded no contest in July 1992 to two counts each of aggravated murder and grand theft and one count of aggravated robbery in Daron’s death.

Fautenberry also confessed to killing four people in Alaska, Oregon and New Jersey over five months in late 1990 and early 1991.

In New Jersey, Fautenberry was convicted of manslaughter for killing fellow trucker Gary Farmer and received a life sentence.

In Alaska, Fautenberry pleaded guilty in the March 1991 fatal stabbing of Jefferson Diffee of Juneau and received a 99-year sentence.

Fautenberry confessed to shooting two people in the head in Oregon. Donald Nutley, whom Fautenberry met at a truck stop, was shot dead after the two went target shooting in November 1990. Christine Guthrie, a Portland bank teller, was killed in February 1991 after Fautenberry returned to the state from Ohio.

His Ohio defence attorney, Dennis Sipe, had argued that the state should pay a neuropsychologist to examine Fautenberry, whose last mental exam was 13 years ago. Sipe contended that Fautenberry should not be executed because he has brain damage from a childhood accident and from an injury while serving in the U.S. Navy.

Ohio has put 30 men to death since it reinstated the death penalty in 1999. Wilson is the first inmate executed in Ohio since June 3.

Ohio executes multistate killer John Fautenberry Death at the State Prison in Lucasville

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