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| Va. prepares for first execution |
| By The Washington Post |
| Published: 05/27/2008 |
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VIRGINIA - Virginia was preparing this evening for the first execution in the state's normally busy death chamber since 2006. Convicted killer Kevin Green was scheduled to be put to death at 9 p.m. barring intervention from the U.S. Supreme Court and Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D). Green has requested a stay of execution from the court and filed a clemency petition with Kaine. If the execution proceeds, Green will be strapped to a gurney, administered a succession of three drugs and pronounced dead at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, state officials said today. The execution of Green, who killed a southern Virginia convenience store owner in 1998, would signal the resumption of capital punishment in the state after it was put on hold last fall because the U.S. Supreme Court was debating the constitutionality of lethal injection. Kaine also twice delayed the execution of another inmate in 2006.Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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