The barn where cult leader Jeffrey Lundgren killed and buried an entire family was torn down Tuesday after the property was bought by a church.

For the past 16 years, Kirtland resident Lee Traxler has been waiting to see if justice would be served in the murders of his five former neighbors. On Tuesday, as Traxler sipped coffee at Judy and Jen’s Restaurant in Kirtland an hour after the execution of Jeffrey Lundgren, he said it had.

Ohio executed a religious cult leader Tuesday for murdering a family of five followers who were taken one at a time to a barn, bound and shot to death. The youngest was a girl just 7 years old.

Faith drew Jeffrey Lundgren to this northeast Ohio community important in Mormon history, but his role as a self-styled prophet led to his banishment from the church and eventually to death row for the cult killings of a family of five.

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday denied the state’s request for a full-court hearing in the case of a death row inmate who’s scheduled execution on Tuesday for killing a family of five was put on hold last week.

Cult murderer Jeffrey Lundgren will not feel any more discomfort from the lethal chemical cocktail injected into his veins than any other inmate sentenced to death, Pittsburgh-based celebrity pathologist Cyril Wecht said.

A federal judge on Tuesday delayed next week’s execution of cult leader Jeffrey Lundgren to allow him to join a lawsuit by five other death row inmates challenging the state’s use of lethal injection. In his request to join the lawsuit, Lundgren, 56, said he is at even greater risk of experiencing pain and suffering during the procedure than other inmates because he is overweight and diabetic.

A federal judge on Tuesday delayed the Oct. 24 execution of cult leader Jeffrey Lundgren to allow him to join a lawsuit challenging Ohio’s use of lethal injection.

Cult killer Jeffrey D. Lundgren should get no mercy for systematically and premeditatedly killing a family of five from Kirtland in 1989, the Ohio Parole Board ruled this morning.

At his trial, cult leader Jeffrey Lundgren said God told him to kill the Averys because they were sinners for not living in his home and following all his orders. However, Lundgren has since realized he misinterpreted the Scripture and deserves another chance at life, said Henry Hilow, one of his attorneys.

Investigators unearthed the bodies of five members of a little-known religious cult on that Jan. 4 night – Dennis and Cheryl Avery and their daughters, Trina, 15, Becky, 13, and Karen, 7. Each had been bound with duct tape and shot with a .45-caliber revolver. The April 17, 1989, murders landed Kirtland cult leader Jeffrey Lundgren on death row, where he has spent the last 16 years.

Kirtland cult leader Jeffrey D. Lundgren is claiming he is a changed man and does not deserve to die for brutally killing a family of five.

KIRTLAND, Ohio - Residents of this rural community where a religious cult leader killed a family of five are relieved that the ordeal that began 17 years ago is nearing an end now that an execution date has been set.

COLUMBUS, Ohio--The Ohio Supreme Court announced Friday it had moved back the execution of a cult leader convicted of murdering a family of five, a change aimed at accomodating the governor's travel schedule.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A cult leader convicted of shooting to death a family of five in 1989 while they stood in a pit dug inside his barn will be executed Oct. 10, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled Thursday.