Media Advisory

For Immediate Release                                                                   July 13, 2009

Execution of Inmate Marvallous Keene #286-363

(Columbus)- Officials at the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) have confirmed that inmate Marvallous Keene, #286-363, is scheduled for execution on Tuesday, July 21, 2009, at 10:00 a.m. The execution will take place at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility located in Lucasville, Ohio. The Ohio Revised Code mandates lethal injection as the manner of execution.

Inmate Keene was sentenced to death out of Montgomery County for the 1992 deaths of Joseph Wilkerson, Danita Gullette, Sarah Abraham, Wendy Cottrill and Marvin Washington. 

BACKGROUND FACTS:

Name:                                     Marvallous Keene

Race:                                      Black

DOB:                                      7/5/73

Crime(s):                                Aggravated Burglary, Aggravated Robbery, Burglary, Aggravated Murder, Kidnapping

Sentence:                               Death

County:                                   Montgomery

The execution could be delayed if there are any pending legal actions in the courts. For further information please free feel to contact the DRC Public Information Office at (614) 752-1150.