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Inmate Executed For "Menace" Slaying



LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) - A man who bragged he would copy a killing scene from a Samuel L. Jackson movie before he shot a Youngstown convenience store owner and a clerk to death was executed this morning.

Mark Brown, 37, was pronounced dead at 10:49 AM at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville.

Brown was sentenced to die for the 1994 fatal shooting of the owner of the Midway Market in Youngstown.

He got a life prison term for killing the clerk.

Before the crime police say he had boasted the killing would mimic similar slayings from the movie "Menace II Society."

The US Supreme Court had earlier today turned down Brown's final two appeals.

State and federal courts refused Brown's last-minute requests to delay the execution while he challenged the state's lethal injection procedures.

The state recently switched from a three-drug injection to a one-drug system.

Brown blamed the killings on being high on Valium-laced wine.

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