Convicted double murderer Gregory Bryant-Bey, 53, was put to death Wednesday, corrections officials in Ohio said.

The condemned man died by lethal injection at 10:41 am (1641 GMT), prison officials in Lucasville, Ohio announced.

The Toledo Blade newspaper reported that Bryant-Bey died proclaiming his innocence, insisting in his final statement that he had been `framed.`

Bryant-Bey was condemned to die in 1993 for the killing of Dale Pinkelmann, who owned a sports memorabilia and coin collectors` shop, during a robbery.

He was also convicted of having killed restaurateur Pete Mihas during a robbery three months later.

He is the second person put to death this year from Ohio`s death row, and the 28th executed in the state since it restored capital punishment in 1976.