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| Ohio executes inmate for '85 stabbing death |
| By journalgazette.net- Andrew Welsh-Huggins |
| Published: 07/19/2018 |
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LUCASVILLE, Ohio – Moments before he was put to death Wednesday in the first Ohio execution in nearly a year, a weeping inmate apologized for choking and fatally stabbing a man he met in a Cincinnati bar in 1985. The execution of Robert Van Hook by lethal injection was carried out at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility with three members of the victim's family watching on the other side of a viewing window. During the execution, Van Hook, crying, told his victim's sister, brother and brother-in-law, “I'm very sorry for taking your brother away from you.” He then recited a Norse prayer which begins: “Lo, there do I see my father. Lo, there do I see my mother, And my sister and my brother.” At the end of the prayer, Van Hook began singing, stopping after about two minutes when the drugs took effect. The execution proceeded without any apparent problems, with the inmate's chest rapidly rising and falling for a few minutes and Van Hook wheezing and puffing his lips in and out before he went still. The death appeared to take about 14 minutes. Read More. |
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