Lewis Williams, 45, continued to profess his innocence...

Lewis Williams, 45, continued to profess his innocence and struggled as 4 guards carried him into the death chamber this morning. Several more had to hold him down as they prepared his arms and inserted the needles for the lethal injection. It was the 1st time in 9 executions since the state resumed the practice in 1999 that an inmate has struggled with guards. He was pronounced dead at 10:08 a.m. Williams was convicted and sentenced to death for killing 76-year-old Leoma Chmielewski during a 1983 robbery. This was the 1st time that witnesses saw members of the execution team insert the needles that delivered the lethal drugs into an inmate's arms. Williams becomes the 1st condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Ohio and the 5th in the USA.