Darryl Durr was executed by the State of Ohio for the murder of sixteen year old Angel Vincent
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The state’s execution of Darryl Durr is on schedule for 10 a.m. today, as the U.S. Supreme Court denied the convicted rapist and murderer’s request for a stay of execution Monday night.
Durr, of Elyria, has taken a few visitors — his lawyers, a spiritual adviser and a friend — and spoken to a woman he calls his wife several times on the phone since his arrival Monday morning at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Spokeswoman Julie Walburn said at a media briefing this morning.
Prison staff have said Durr, 46, has been cooperative but increasingly anxious, Walburn said.
Durr has declined to eat or drink in observance of a religious fast since arriving here.
The state today is scheduled to execute Darryl Durr
of Elyria, who was convicted of raping and strangling a 16-year-old girl in 1988.
Durr arrived at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville Monday morning as the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected his last-minute attempts to halt the execution. Later in the day, Gov. Ted Strickland denied Durr clemency, and the U.S. Supreme Court late Monday refused to hear his case.
Durr had been seeking DNA testing of a necklace belonging to the victim, said his lawyer, Dennis Sipe. Durr also argued, in separate lawsuits, that the state cannot administer the drugs used in the lethal injection without a prescription, and that he is allergic to anesthesia. After the appeals court rejected the suits, Durr’s lawyers went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which had not issued a decision as of Monday evening.
Durr will be the 37th Ohio inmate executed at the prison’s “Death House” in Lucasville since 1999. Durr will be killed with a dose of thiopental sodium given intravenously. If an IV cannot be inserted, an intramuscular injection of other lethal drugs is available as a back-up.
Durr, 46, was put on death row for the kidnapping, rape and murder of Angel Vincent, 16, of Elyria. Durr strangled Angel with a dog chain on Jan. 31 or Feb.1 and hid her body inside two construction cones, placed end to end, in a ravine near Denison Avenue and Fulton Road. Boys playing in the area discovered Angel’s body three months later.
Durr had been dating and living with Angel’s friend and neighbor, Deborah Mullins, who was a year or two older than Angel.
Angel was home alone the night of Jan. 31 when she asked Mullins to go to another girlfriend’s house to get her jean jacket containing a pack of cigarettes. Mullins testified in court that she went back to her home two doors down and told Durr, who was 24 at the time, to get the cigarettes.
Durr returned 15 minutes later and began throwing rocks at Mullins’ window and honking his car horn. Mullins and the baby she had with Durr got into his car, and Mullins saw Angel tied up in the back. Durr pulled a knife on Mullins and their baby and said he was going to kill Angel “so she wouldn’t tell,” Mullins testified.
After a short drive, Durr dropped Mullins back off at their home. He returned three to four hours later without Angel. The teenager was presumed missing until Mullins talked to police eight months later, after Durr was arrested for raping two other girls, 14 and 18.
Durr’s history of violence — at 18, he stabbed a woman in the stomach during an argument over $2 worth of gas — is one reason the Ohio Adult Parole Authority in September unanimously recommended that Strickland deny clemency.
No motive for the killing was offered in court, but Angel’s mother, Norma Godsey, later told the parole board that Durr was obsessed with her daughter.
Durr, however, told the parole board that he never left Mullins’ house when she asked him to get Angel’s cigarettes. He also denied raping the other two teenagers, even though he pleaded guilty to those crimes. There was no physical evidence used against Durr in court because Angel’s body was decomposed.
Two lawyers, a spiritual adviser and a friend are scheduled to witness the execution on Durr’s behalf. Angel’s mother, cousin and uncle also are expected to attend.
Durr refused food and drink Monday in observance of a “religious fast,” Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction spokeswoman Julie Walburn said. He also refused to allow medical staff to take his vital signs, but was cooperative when they checked his veins, which appear palpable, Walburn said
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