A former Oregon trucker, 45-year-old John Fautenberry was pronounced dead Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at 10:37 a.m. at Lucasville’s Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. Reports say, the request of delaying his execution on the basis that he had brain damage, was denied by the United States Supreme Court. He was sentenced almost 2 hours after the denial of his execution delaying request.

John Fautenberry was sentenced to death following the murder of 46-year-old Joseph Daron Jr. from Milford, Ohio, the murder he committed on February 17, 1991. He confessed to had killed 4 people during a period of 5 month (from late 1990 to early 1991).

John Fautenberry also confessed to had killed the fellow trucker Gary Farmer in New Jersey, and was given life sentence. He pleaded guilty for stabbing Juneau’s Jefferson Diffee in March 1991, and was given 99-year sentence.

In Cincinnati, John Fautenberry gave up his right that the jury decide for him, and in July 1992, he pleaded guilty for ‘2 counts of aggravated murder and grand theft’ and ‘1 count of aggravated robbery after the daeth of Daron.’

Here is a photo of John Fautenberry who was sentenced to death on Tuesday, July 14, 2009.

John Fautenberry