Frank Spisak was executed in Ohio on February 17th, 2011

Frank Spisak chose to read Bible verses in German for a final statement, and was pronounced dead shortly after 10:30 am following an injection of sodium thiopental. Spisak, 59, set the Ohio record for the longest time on death row before execution, at more than 27 years. Spisak read the first seven Bible verses from chapter seven of the book of Revelations from a hand-written yellow paper held over his head by a prison official, speaking in a halting voice and sometimes having trouble reading the verses: "I can't read it, it's too blurry, I can't read it," he said at one point. May he rest in peace.