A tweet from WTAM Cleveland says Ote was pronounced dead at 10:54 am
Canton Repository:
“Otte was sentenced to die for the Feb. 12, 1992, killing of Robert Wasikowski and the Feb. 13, 1992, killing of Sharon Kostura.
JoEllen Smith, a state prisons department spokeswoman, says death row inmate Gary Otte (OH’-tee) did not sleep overnight ahead of his scheduled Wednesday morning execution for killing two people in back-to-back robberies in 1992.
She says Otte showered early Wednesday, and shortly before 7 a.m. was praying with his parents.”
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