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Death Row Inmate Makes Final Confession
By ajc.com
Published: 03/10/2011

LUCASVILLE, Ohio — An Ohio prisons spokesman says a death row inmate facing execution Thursday confessed to his crime in a lie detector test last week.

Johnnie Baston is scheduled to die by a lethal dose of the surgical sedative pentobarbital, the first standalone use of the drug to execute someone in the U.S.

Department of Rehabilitation and Correction spokesman Carlo LoParo says Baston made the confession Friday.

The 37-year-old Baston was sentenced to die for killing Chong-Hoon Mah, a South Korean immigrant who was shot in the back of the head.

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