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| Man Executed for 1983 Cleveland Shooting |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 06/19/2003 |
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A man convicted of killing a store owner during a robbery was executed by injection Wednesday, after the Supreme Court declined to give him more time to argue that he had poor legal aid. The time of death was 10:11 a.m., a spokeswoman for Attorney General Jim Petro said. Ernest Martin, 42, had spent most of the morning on the phone with his mother and also visited with other relatives at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. Martin was convicted of killing store owner Robert Robinson during a robbery in Cleveland on Jan. 21, 1983. Prosecutors said he plotted to rob Robinson with a gun he stole from a security guard a month earlier, using his girlfriend to get the storekeeper to open his door after hours. Martin said he walked to the store to see what happened after the robbery occurred. He said a man he knew only as Slim did both crimes. Slim was never identified. The girlfriend, Josephine Pedro, testified against Martin. The Supreme Court declined Martin's final appeal Tuesday without comment. Gov. Bob Taft had earlier denied him clemency. Besides claiming innocence and poor legal aid, Martin had also argued he was mental retarded, but that claim was dropped after a psychologist hired by his attorneys determined he was not. He was the eighth inmate executed by Ohio since it resumed carrying out the death penalty in 1999. |
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