Steven Smith

Steven Smith

Steven Smith

Kaylee Bashline, left, and Kesha Frye stand inside the Ohio state prison in Lucasville, Ohio following
the execution of Steve Smith Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Smith was convicted and sentenced
to death for killing Frye's six-month-old daughter while raping her in 1998.
(AP Photo/Amanda Lee Myers)

Kesha Frye, center, mother of murder victim Autumn Carter, talks to reporters Wednesday after witnessing
the execution of Steve Smith, the Mansfield man who brutally raped murdered the baby girl nearly
 15 years ago. Autumn's grandfather, Pat Hicks, and aunt, Kaylee Bashline, also witnessed
Smith's lethal injection.
(Marc Kovac photo)

A view of a holding cell at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio
(AFP)

The death chamber at the Southern Ohio Corrections Facility in Lucasville.
(Caroline Groussain/AFP/Getty Images)

The death chamber at the Southern Ohio Corrections Facility in Lucasville.
(AP file photo)

The victim

Autumn Breeze Carter, 6 month old.

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