North Carolina Correction Secretary Theodis Beck has set the execution dates for three North Carolina inmates.

Steven Van McHone is scheduled to be executed at 2 a.m. on Nov. 11, 2005. The execution is scheduled for 2 a.m. at Central Prison in Raleigh.

McHone, 35, was sentenced to death March 7, 1991 in Surry County Superior Court for the June 1990 murders of Mildred Johnson Adams and Wesley Dalton Adams Sr.

Elias Hanna Syriani is scheduled to be executed at 2 a.m. on Nov. 18, 2005. 

Syriani, 67, was sentenced to death June 12, 1991 in Mecklenburg County Superior Court for the summer 1990 murder of Teresa Yousef Syriani.

Kenneth Lee Boyd is scheduled to be executed at 2 a.m. on Dec. 2, 2005.

Boyd, 57, was sentenced to death July 14, 1994 in Rockingham County Superior Court for the March 1988 murders of Julie Curry Boyd and Thomas Dillard Curry.