Ohio executioners performed the state's sixth lethal injection of the year on a man who apologized for killing five children before the punishment was carried out, dpa reported. Garner died at 10:38 am after reading a lengthy final statement to witnesses at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, said Julie Walburn, communications chief of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. Garner, 37, received the death penalty after his 1992 conviction in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court for killing the five children, age 8 to 12, who slept in a house that he set afire. A sixth victim, Rod Mack, who survived death by jumping out of the window, was among the witnesses to the execution, along with two mothers of the victims. According to Walburn, Garner apologized to the victims and thanked family members, spiritual advisers and the state of Ohio for helping him.
