Ohio man executed for fire deaths of 5 children

? An Ohio man said he was “heartily sorry” before he was executed Tuesday for the murders of five children in a 1992 Cincinnati apartment fire he set in an attempt to destroy evidence of a burglary.

William Garner, 37, died by lethal injection at 10:38 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility.

As he lay on the execution table, Garner held a dreadlock of hair from a female friend and read a lengthy final statement from notebook paper held by the execution team leader, thanking several people as well as the state of Ohio.

“God bless everyone who has been robbed in this procedure,” he said. “I thought I’d never be free, but I’m free now.”