FILE – This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows death row inmate Robert Van Hook, convicted of fatally strangling and stabbing David Self in 1985 after meeting him in a Cincinnati bar. Van Hook's was executed this morning.

LUCASVILLE — Ohio has put to death a killer sentenced to die for stabbing and dismembering a man he met in a bar in 1985.

The execution of Robert Van Hook by lethal injection was carried out this morning at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. The time of death was 10:44 a.m.

The 58-year-old Van Hook was sentenced to die for stabbing and strangling David Self in Cincinnati. Prosecutors say Van Hook made a practice of luring gay men to apartments to rob them.

Van Hook, weeping, told his victim’s brother, sister and brother-in-law he was “very sorry for taking your brother away from you.”

Defense attorneys argued unsuccessfully that Van Hook should be spared because of childhood sexual, physical and mental abuse he suffered.

An Ohio prisons spokeswoman JoEllen Smith said Van Hook spent the morning meeting with Roman Catholic priests and friends.

Van Hook spent much of the night lying on his bed and singing and later listening to music, she said. Van Hook slept only briefly and awoke shortly before 5 a.m., she said. He showered, asked for leftover strawberry cheesecake from his last meal the night before and performed a Buddhist chant with a friend who was visiting. Smith says Van Hook also took communion the evening before.

Republican Gov. John Kasich rejected his request for clemency, and the inmate didn’t have any appeals pending.

Van Hook’s attorneys say they’re disappointed the governor didn’t give more weight to his military service and childhood physical, mental and sexual abuse.