Executed
John Hicks
John Hicks, 49, was executed by lethal injection at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility on November 29, 2005. On the night before, he spoke by phone with his mother, his brother and a family friend, read the Bible, and asked for sweet rolls with his breakfast. Governor Bob Taft declined to commute his death sentence to life in prison, and federal appeals courts rejected his final requests to delay the execution.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.