USA - Ohio. USA's 1000th execution via lethal injection. Marvallous Keene was put to death by lethal injection

USA's 1000th execution via lethal injection. Marvallous Keene was put to death by lethal injection this morning. Keene, 36, paid the ultimate price today for a Christmastime killing spree that began on Christmas Eve 1992 and left 5 people dead. Keene died at 10:36 a.m. from a lethal injection of chemicals administered at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. "No, I have no words," he said when asked whether he had any last words. Keene's death rampage took the lives of Joseph Wilkerson, 34; Danita Gullette, 18; Sarah Abraham, 38; Wendy Cottrill, 16, and Marvin Washington, 18. Keene was 19 at the time of the slayings. Keene becomes the 3rd condemned inmate in Ohio to be put to death this year and the 31st overall since the state resumed capital punishment in 1999. Keene becomes the 35th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1171st overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977. It was the 1000th execution in the nation via lethal injection since it was first used on condemned inmate Charlie Brooks in Texas on December 7, 1982. Since the death penalty was re-legalized in the USA on July 2, 1976, there have been 155 executions carried out by electrocution, 11 in gas chambers, 3 hangings and 2 shooting deaths by firing squads. The USA has more methods (5) of executions than any other country in the world.