Gregory Bryant Bey was executed by the State of Ohio for two robbery murders
According to court documents Gregory Bryant Bey would rob the Pinky’s Collectibles in Toledo and stab to death the owner. A week earlier Bey would rob The Board Room and murder the owner
Bey would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Gregory Bryant Bey would be executed by lethal injection on November 19 2008
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Gregory Bryant Bey would be executed on November 19 2008
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Ohio today executed a man for the 1992 stabbing death of a collectibles store owner in Toledo, the state’s second execution in as many months. Gregory Bryant-Bey, 53, died by lethal injection at 10:41 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville.
In a three-minute final statement, Bryant-Bey said he’d been framed, convicted on the basis of false evidence and had had poor legal help. ”My brothers and sisters, what can be done to prevent sisters and brothers from being framed?” he said.
Bryant-Bey’s execution proceeded after the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied his request for a 60-day reprieve. He had wanted more time to present additional information about his case to Gov. Ted Strickland, who denied clemency Tuesday.
Bryant-Bey was the second inmate put to death in Ohio since the end of an unofficial national moratorium on executions that began last year while the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed Kentucky’s lethal injection procedure.
Bryant-Bey was convicted in the Aug. 9, 1992, robbery and killing of Dale Pinkelman, who owned a sports collectibles and coin shop.
He also faced a death penalty in the Nov. 2, 1992, killing of Peter Mihas, owner of The Board Room restaurant in downtown Toledo. After police arrested Bryant-Bey for Mihas’ death, similarities between the two crimes led to charges in Pinkelman’s slaying. A jury recommended life in prison for Bryant-Bey in the Mihas killing.
The state has now executed 28 inmates since 1999, when Ohio renewed executions after more than three decades.