Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction

NEWS RELEASE

 

May 13, 2010

For Immediate Release                                   

           

 

MEDIA ADVISORY

CONTACT:  Julie Walburn
DRC Bureau of Communications

(614) 752-1150

Execution of Michael Beuke Carried Out Today

The death sentence of inmate Michael Beuke was carried out at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville this morning via intravenous lethal injection. Beuke's time of death was 10:53 a.m.  His sentence was imposed on October 25, 1983, by the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court.