Ohio has executed an inmate who robbed and strangled his 67-year-old neighbor in 1994 to get money to buy alcohol.
Lawrence Reynolds Jr. died by lethal injection at 10:27 a.m. Tuesday at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville.
His death came nine days after Reynolds attempted suicide with an overdose of pills while at the Ohio State Prison in Youngstown. As a result, Reynolds execution was delayed a week.
The 43-year-old Reynolds was convicted for the 1994 killing of Loretta Foster, a widow who lived three doors down in their Cuyahoga Falls neighborhood near Akron. Prosecutors said Reynolds was an alcoholic who was out of work and had little money. He forced his way into Foster's house, strangled her with rope and left with $40 in cash and a blank check from her purse.
