Ohio prepares to execute man in 1992 killing spree

COLUMBUS (AP) — A man who took part in a 1992 Christmas holiday killing spree that left six people dead and two wounded had no plans to ask a court to stop his pending execution, his attorney said today.

Marvallous Keene doesn’t want to die Tuesday but won’t challenge the death sentence, public defender Rachel Troutman said.

Keene, who was convicted in five of the murders, was transferred today from the maximum-security state prison in Youngstown to the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, where the state has its death chamber.

He was scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday morning in what would be the state’s second execution in two weeks.