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  1. John William Byrd Jr. - Wikipedia

    • John William Byrd Jr. (December 18, 1963 – February 19, 2002) was an American murderer who was executed by lethal injection for killing convenience store clerk Monte Tewksbury. Byrd, who protested his innocence until his execution, spent 18 years and 6 months on Ohio's death row. Byrd was the third person to be put to death since Ohio reintroduce… See more

    Crimes

    On the evening of April 17, 1983, Monte Tewksbury, 40, was working alone as the night clerk at a … See more

    Arrests and investigation

    As doctors were working to save Tewksbury's life at the hospital, two police officers from Forest Park in Hamilton County were seated in a marked police cruiser in a K-Mart parking lot eating their lunch. The… See more

    Trials

    Brewer and Woodall were separately tried and convicted of aggravated murder and three counts of aggravated robbery. They were both sentenced to life terms. Woodall died of cancer in prison on April 8, 2001.
    John Brew… See more

     
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