Kenneth Biros

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Kenneth Biros (born September 9, 1958) is an Ohio Death Row inmate convicted of Aggravated Murder, Attempted Rape, Aggravated Robbery and Felonious Sexual Penetration. He has admitted to killing Tami Engstrom during February 1991 in a fit of rage. Biros then cut up the body and spread various parts over a wide territory encompassing portions of northeast Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania.

He was sentenced to die by lethal injection at 10:00 a.m. on 20 March 2007. This was the first execution for Govenor Ted Strickland's administration. Govenor Strickland denied Biros clemency on 16 March 2007. However, on that day the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the ruling of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that Biros' execution should be stayed to allow him to continue to argue his case that Ohio's lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment. He was then transferred from Ohio's death row to the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio.^[1]