Ohio Man executed after 27 years on death row for stabbing ex-boss's 15 year-old son

LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) --Ohio has executed a man who fatally stabbed a teen in 1985, marking the state's first execution in six months.

Forty-nine-year-old Mark Wiles died by lethal injection Wednesday, ending an unofficial moratorium on the death penalty that occurred while the state and a federal judge wrangled over Ohio's lethal injection procedures.

Wiles, who dropped his final appeal last week, told the Ohio Parole Board he wasn't sure he deserved mercy but requested clemency because he had to.

Both the Parole Board and Gov. John Kasich denied Wiles' request.

Records show that Wiles surprised 15-year-old Mark Klima during a burglary on his family's farmhouse and stabbed him repeatedly with a kitchen knife until he stopped moving.

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