Marvallous Keene
Marvallous Keene was executed by lethal injection on July 21, 2009, at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, where he was held under a sentence of death. His attorneys said he had been despondent after his brother was shot and killed a year earlier, and that a falling out with his father contributed to his troubled emotional state. Keene did not file a late appeal or request clemency, and at a clemency hearing he asked his attorneys not to present evidence on his behalf, saying he did not want to cause more pain to his family or the victims' families. The Death Penalty Information Center counted the execution as the 1,000th by lethal injection in the U.S. since 1976.
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.