Ohio Executes Inmate Who Killed Neighbor
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Posted: 11:06 AM Mar 16, 2010
Ohio Executes Inmate Who Killed Neighbor
Lawrence Reynolds Jr. died by lethal injection at 10:27 a.m. Tuesday at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville.
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LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) - Ohio has executed an inmate who robbed and strangled his 67-year-old neighbor in 1994 to get money to buy alcohol.

Lawrence Reynolds Jr. died by lethal injection at 10:27 a.m. Tuesday at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. His death came nine days after Reynolds overdosed on pills in a suicide attempt that delayed his execution by a week.

The 43-year-old Reynolds was convicted for the 1994 killing of Loretta Foster, a widow who lived three doors down in their Cuyahoga Falls neighborhood near Akron.

Prosecutors said Reynolds was an alcoholic who was out of work and had little money. He forced his way into Foster's house, strangled her with rope and left with $40 in cash and a blank check from her purse. .

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Posted by: Joanie Stambaugh on Mar 24, 2010 at 10:45 PM

Taking out the trash is no different. May the family of his victim finally get some closure. So, who will be the next candidate for the Walk of Death!? I think they should be doing an execution a day here in OH just to cut back on costs and get the trash taken out sooner. I see no reason to keep these killers alive even one more day, they were found guilty and sentenced, now the State needs to see that it gets carried out in a timely manner. This piece of filth shouldn't have been sitting in prison as long as he did after being found guilty. He should have been executed the very next day for his crime, he earned it!
Posted by: Anonymous on Mar 19, 2010 at 08:28 PM

Other books and other religions have been around just as long Lia, does that make them correct as well?
Posted by: stacy on Mar 18, 2010 at 09:33 PM

im just wondering and i do know about the bible but.... what about these psychopaths that molest and kill these kids should they live after doing this to the most innocent that they are come on its a proven fact half of these low lifes that get out do it again and if they are put in prison these people get free health care and they are older people in the U.S. that have to choose eat or meds they truly need we need to think about the whole system and we r takin care of these fools in prison.
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