David M. Brewer (April 22, 1959 – April 29, 2003) was the seventh person executed by the state of Ohio since it reinstated the death penalty in 1981. Brewer died by lethal injection on April 29, 2003, after spending 17 years and six months on death row. He was convicted of the 1985 murder of 21-year-old Sherry Byrne, the wife of a college fraternity brother. At 10:00 a.m. on April 29, 2003, Brewer was led into the execution chamber at the state prison in Lucasville, Ohio. He was declared dead at 10:20 a.m.