Getsy says he’s ‘sorry’ to victims’ family, then dies

LUCASVILLE — Jason Getsy faced the children of the Hubbard woman he killed 14 years ago and apologized before being executed Tuesday for the crime.

“To Chuck and Nancy Serafino and your loved ones, for all the pain that I have caused you, it is my earnest prayer that God grant you peace,” Getsy said before the lethal injection that ended his life. “I’m sorry. It is a little word, I know, but it’s true.”

Getsy, 33, was pronounced dead at 10:29 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Institution near Lucasville. Brother and sister Chuck and Nancy Serafino witnessed the execution, along with a niece of the murder victim.

“It’s too little, too late,” Chuck Serafino told reporters afterward. “He’s been asked a number of times to tell the truth, and he has not.... I wrote to him, asked for the truth. He lied then, he lied to the parole board. To this day, he has never taken responsibility for what he did.”

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