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| Ohio executes inmate for prison officer's murder |
| By Reuters |
| Published: 06/08/2004 |
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Ohio on Tuesday executed a man who killed a jail officer with a makeshift knife intended for an attack on another inmate. William Zuern, 45, died by lethal injection at 10:04 a.m. EDT in the death chamber at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, state officials said. On June 9, 1984, Zuern, then in jail awaiting trial for the murder of Cincinnati man, used a sharpened bucket handle to stab officer Phillip Pence in the chest. Pence died later in the hospital. Officers had been alerted by other prisoners that Zuern planned on killing another inmate and the officer was stabbed when he came to search Zuern's cell. Zuern's attorney did not dispute his guilt at trial, and his last-ditch appeal rejected on Monday centered on whether his defense was adequate. Ohio Gov. Robert Taft, in denying clemency on Monday, said Zuern had been a violent prisoner during his two decades on death row, and had kidnapped and threatened to kill two prison officers. |
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