Updated at 8:45 p.m. Friday
EDDYVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky has executed a confessed child-killer who resisted all appeals.

In the state's first execution in nine years, 37-year-old Marco Allen Chapman was given a lethal injection Friday at the Kentucky State Penitentiary. He was pronounced dead at 7:34 p.m. CST.

Chapman pleaded guilty in 2004 to killing two children in their northern Kentucky home in a 2002 attack that wounded their mother and another child.

He asked to be put to death and fought for the right to fire his attorneys to clear the way.

Kentucky's last execution was in 1999, when Eddie Lee Harper died by lethal injection.

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EDDYVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky is on the verge of its first execution in nine years as prison officials prepare to give a lethal injection to confessed child-killer Marco Allen Chapman.

The 37-year-old is scheduled to receive a deadly three-drug cocktail Friday evening.

Department of Corrections spokeswoman Lisa Lamb said Chapman was moved on Thursday to the building where the execution will take place. Lamb said he took a bible, writing materials and a television with him.

Chapman was sentenced to death in 2004 after pleading guilty to the murders of two children in the northern Kentucky town of Warsaw. He also admitted to stabbing another child and sexually assaulting their mother in the 2002 attack.

The last person executed in Kentucky was Eddie Lee Harper, who received a lethal injection in 1999.