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Ohio Executes Gregory Bryant-Bey for the 1992 Stabbing of Toledo Collectibles-Shop Owner Dale Pinkelman

Bryant-Bey was also serving life for killing restaurant owner Peter Mihas in a similar way three months later. In his last words he said he had been framed.

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Illustration of a frosted, nearly empty parking lot facing a prison and guard tower at dawn. Not an actual scene from the case.

In 1992, two Toledo business owners were stabbed to death three months apart. On November 19, 2008, Ohio executed Gregory L. Bryant-Bey, 53, for the first of the killings, the robbery and murder of collectibles-shop owner Dale Pinkelman.

Bryant-Bey was pronounced dead at 10:41 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. A day earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court had denied his request for a 60-day reprieve, and Gov. Ted Strickland had denied clemency. Pinkelman, 48, was found stabbed in his shop in August 1992. Peter Mihas, 61, owner of The Board Room restaurant in downtown Toledo, was killed in November. An informant led police to Bryant-Bey in the Mihas case, and he confessed. Similarities between the two killings and a palm print found in Pinkelman's shop then linked him to the earlier murder.

Bryant-Bey received life in prison for Mihas's murder and death for Pinkelman's. In 2007, a federal appeals court upheld the Pinkelman conviction, ruling that the evidence from the Mihas case had been properly admitted. In his final statement, Bryant-Bey said he had been framed "based on false evidence" by Lucas County law enforcement officials. He was the 28th inmate executed in Ohio since the state resumed executions in 1999.

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