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| Ohio executes youngest inmate ever |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 10/14/2004 |
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A man was executed yesterday for a shotgun slaying during a robbery that netted $15 in 1994. At age 28, Adremy Dennis was the youngest inmate put to death in Ohio since 1962 and the 15th executed since the state resumed using the death penalty in 1999. He was pronounced dead by injection at 10:10 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. Dennis had said the victim, Kurt Kyle, 29, was partly to blame for the slaying because he put his hand in his pocket after being ordered not to move. He also told an Ohio Parole Board member he regretted the robbery brought so little cash and that he allowed any witnesses to survive. Defense lawyers said all appeals were exhausted when the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati rejected a request last week to postpone the execution for Dennis' challenge that Ohio's method of lethal injection violates the U.S. Constitution as an unacceptably cruel punishment. Dennis and an accomplice approached Kyle and a friend in front of Kyle's home in Akron. Kyle, a stock race car driver, was celebrating a victory at Barberton Speedway. The friend, Martin Eberhart, handed over $15 at gunpoint. Kyle searched his pockets, prompting Dennis to shoot him in the head with a sawed-off shotgun. Eberhart, who watched the execution with two other friends of Kyle's, said Dennis' death brought some closure "of a horrible story." Gov. Bob Taft declined to stop the execution, saying Dennis did not prove he was remorseful. The parole board recommended in a 5-3 vote that Taft deny clemency, with dissenting members saying a commuted sentence should be considered because of Dennis' age at the time of the killing - 18- and a childhood troubled by drugs and street crime. |
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