Ohio begins preparations to execute killer of man met in bar

Ohio planned Tuesday to move a condemned killer to the state death house as it begins preparations for its first execution in several months.Inmate Robert Van Hook was sentenced to die for fatally strangling and stabbing David Self after picking him up in a bar in Cincinnati in 1985. Van Hook, 58, has no remaining appeals, and Republican Gov. John Kasich rejected his request for clemency without comment.At the time of the killing, Van Hook was suffering from long-term effects of untreated mental