Glen Benner was executed by the State of Ohio for the murder of Cynthia Sedgwick
According to court documents Glen Benner would kidnap Cynthia Sedgwick who was later sexually assaulted and murdered
Glen Benner was also convicted of another murder and sexual assault: Trina Bowser
Glen Benner was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Glen Benner was executed by lethal injection on February 7 2006
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Glen Benner was executed on February 7 2006
Glen Benner Case
A serial rapist and murderer, described by one victim’s family member as a “wicked angel of Satan,” was executed this morning. Glenn L. Benner II, 43, died by injection at 10:15 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville. He was the first Ohioan executed this year and the 20th since the state resumed capital punishment in 1999.
In a final statement while strapped to the lethal injection table, Benner addressed the victim’s famlies. “Over the last 20 years, I’ve caused you unimaginable pain. I’m sorry. Trina and Cynthia were beautiful girls who dind’t deserve what I did to them.” “That won’t get you into heaven, ace,” said Timothy Bowser, a brother of one of victims who was a witness.
For the first time ever, prison officials allowed a face-to-face meeting in the Death House between the condemned man and a family member of a victim. Benner talked for about 15 minutes beginning at 8 a.m. with Rodney Bowser, also a brother of Trina Bowser, a victim.
On Jan. 1, 1986, Benner kidnapped, raped and strangled the 21-year-old woman, leaving her body in the trunk of her burning car on I-76. It was discovered by her brother and parents who were searching for her. Prisons spokesman Andrea Dean described the cell-front meeting as calm. She said Bowser, who was a childhood friend of Benner, “had some personal questions he wanted answered and the inmate answered.”
Benner also was convicted and sentenced to death for the Aug. 6, 1985, kidnapping, rape and murder of Cythnia Sedgwick, 26, whom he met at a George Thorogood concert at Blossom Music Center near Akron. Her decomposing body was found a week later in a wooded area near the concert center. He also was convicted for raping and choking two other woman before he was captured.
Benner, who played football in high school and came from a middle-class family, started drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana as a teen-ager. That evolved into a serious substance abuse habit, according to court records. By the age of 18, he had already attempted suicide.
He exhausted all his legal appeals and did not seek clemency from Gov. Bob Taft. The governor, who is required by law to do a clemency review even if the inmate does not request it, said there was no reason for mercy in Benners case.