Victims included Sarah Abraham, 38, a convenience store clerk shot in the head after handing over $30 from a cash register, and Marvin Washington and Wendy Cottrill, two teenage acquaintances who Keene feared would tell police about his crimes.
Cottrill's mother, Donna Cottrill, stood when Keene entered the death chamber, but he didn't acknowledge her or look directly at anyone as he lay on the gurney.
When the prison warden asked Keene if he wanted to make a final statement, Keene replied, "No, I have no words."
He stared at the ceiling, then closed his eyes. His chest slightly heaved as the drugs were administered.
Seven members of the victims' families who witnessed the execution declined to speak to reporters afterward, as did Keene's attorneys.
Marvallous Keene, 36, who was convicted in five of the murders, chose not to file a late appeal over his death sentence.
He died by lethal injection at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville — seven days after Ohio's last execution. It was the fastest turnaround since the state executed two inmates in six days in 2004.
The Ohio Supreme Court, in denying a request last month to delay Keene's execution, said it would schedule future executions at last three weeks apart so that public defenders will have more time to prepare clemency cases for inmates who wish to pursue it.
Ohio has one execution scheduled per month through February 2010.
Keene and three accomplices went on a three-day murder and robbery rampage in Dayton that began on Christmas Eve 1992.
Cottrill's mother, Donna Cottrill, stood when Keene entered the death chamber, but he didn't acknowledge her or look directly at anyone as he lay on the gurney.
When the prison warden asked Keene if he wanted to make a final statement, Keene replied, "No, I have no words."
He stared at the ceiling, then closed his eyes. His chest slightly heaved as the drugs were administered.
Seven members of the victims' families who witnessed the execution declined to speak to reporters afterward, as did Keene's attorneys.
Marvallous Keene, 36, who was convicted in five of the murders, chose not to file a late appeal over his death sentence.
He died by lethal injection at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville — seven days after Ohio's last execution. It was the fastest turnaround since the state executed two inmates in six days in 2004.
The Ohio Supreme Court, in denying a request last month to delay Keene's execution, said it would schedule future executions at last three weeks apart so that public defenders will have more time to prepare clemency cases for inmates who wish to pursue it.
Ohio has one execution scheduled per month through February 2010.
Keene and three accomplices went on a three-day murder and robbery rampage in Dayton that began on Christmas Eve 1992.
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