A man was executed Tuesday for beating and stomping to death a fellow jail inmate days after the two had argued over what to watch on television. Clarence Carter, 49, died at 10:25 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. He was the second inmate killed using the surgical sedative pentobarbital as a stand-alone execution drug. Carter, who was waiting to be sentenced for aggravated murder in 1988 when he attacked Johnny Allen Jr., looked to see if any of Allen's family members were present. Seeing none, he still delivered an apology. "I'd like to say I'm sorry for what I did, especially to his mother. I ask God for forgiveness and them for forgiveness," he said. He smiled at his brother and appeared to pray as the lethal injection began. After several deep breaths, his eyes closed. He fell silent about a minute into the procedure. Allen's mother did not attend, but released a statement saying she has no animosity against Carter and has forgiven him. "But my forgiveness of him will never ease the pain of the loss of my son," she wrote.
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