Clemency has been denied for a Waterloo man's execution in Ohio

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Update, February 28, 4:30 p.m. - Gov. John R. Kasich denied Frederick J. Treesh's request for executive clemency.

Treesh is still scheduled to be executed on Wednesday, March 6 at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. 

This is an update to the previously published story below.
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A week from Wednesday, a Waterloo man on death row in Ohio is scheduled to be executed.  In the mid-90s, Fredrick Treesh and two other people went on a multistate crime spree: a spree in which they killed two people, and committed 200 robberies over just a few weeks.  All to fuel their crack cocaine addiction.

Treesh and his trio's crime spree came to a halt in late August of 1994 after he shot and killed a security guard in an adult bookstore.

What started off as a way to relieve pain from a head injury turned into a terrible addiction for Fred Treesh.  Crack cocaine is what fueled this trio's multi-state crime spree in August of 1994.

On August 27, 1994, Treesh walked into an adult bookstore in Ohio and shot and killed the security guard.  Here's what he had to say back in the mid-90s about the killing in an exclusive jailhouse interview - "I wasn't in the right frame of mind because of crack cocaine.  I didn't even like myself after I saw the pictures.  I wasn't a nice person.  When they interviewed me at the Eastlake jail and I saw the video in court, I couldn't believe myself," Trish explained.

Three weeks ago the parole board denied him clemency .  When NewsChannel 15 interviewed Treesh back in 1996 he showed remorse for killing the security guard.

"You can't take back murder.  I wish I could, but I can't."

As you may remember, Treesh was the subject of a WANE-TV documentary back in 1997 called Death Row Convictions.  He will be executed in Ohio next week.