USA; ESEGUITA CONDANNA IN OHIO

NEW YORK, - L'Ohio ha eseguito la condanna a morte di un uomo accusato di aver ucciso 14 anni fa una studentessa di college.

   Richard Fox e' morto per un'iniezione letale poco dopo le 10 del mattino locali (le 16:00 in Italia), diventando l'undicesima persona ad essere messa a morte negli Usa dall' inizio

dell'anno.

   Fox era accusato di aver ucciso nel 1989 una ragazza di 18anni, dopo averla attirata con una falsa offerta di lavoro.

L'uomo fu arrestato e confesso' il delitto dopo che un'altra ragazza racconto' alla polizia di essere sfuggita ad un destino analogo a quello della vittima.

Ohio executes Richard Fox

In Lucasville, a man who lured a college student to her death with the promise of a job was executed Wednesday.

Richard E. Fox, 47, was executed by injection after being refused clemency and a chance to argue for re-sentencing. His attorneys said a week earlier that no more appeals would be filed.

 He was pronounced dead at 10:13 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility.

 Fox kidnapped, stabbed and strangled Leslie Keckler, 18, of Bowling Green, on Sept. 26, 1989. Her body was found 4 days later in a ditch near the northwest Ohio city. He was convicted in 1990 of aggravated murder and kidnapping.

 Fox had confessed. Gov. Bob Taft last week refused to grant clemency, saying there was no doubt that Fox was guilty.

 Greg Meyers, chief of the Ohio Public Defender's death penalty section, said then that there were no more legal issues to appeal.

 Fox had lived in the northwest Ohio town of Tontogany.

 Authorities said Fox found Keckler, a student at Owens Community College near Toledo, through an application she filled out at the restaurant where he worked.

 After an initial meeting in hotel lobby, Keckler got into Fox's car so that they could check out businesses where supplies could be sold.

 In a rural area outside of Bowling Green, Fox started making advances. Keckler fought him and tried to open the car door. But he pulled her back, pulled her coat over her head and stabbed her 6 times in the back.

 He then drove to a secluded road where, he told police, he strangled her with a rope "just to make sure she was dead."

 Prosecutors said Fox repeatedly used deception to lure women in the years before the murder. However, his attorneys said he used trickery to meet women, not to kill them.

 His attorneys argued that Fox was not the "worst of the worst" criminals for whom the death penalty is intended.

 They also said he should have been re-sentenced because guidelines used in his case later were declared flawed by the Ohio Supreme Court. The high court refused to delay the execution to hear the sentencing issue.

 Fox becomes the 1st condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Ohio and the 6th overall since the state resumed capital punishment in 1999.

 Fox becomes the 11th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 831st overall since America resumed executions on January 17, 1977.