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Virginia executes serial killer Alfredo Prieto after appeals fail
Source: The Guardian
Virginia executes serial killer Alfredo Prieto after appeals fail
Friday 2 October 2015 03.00 BST
Virginia has executed Alfredo Prieto, a convicted serial killer who claimed he was intellectually disabled.
Prieto was pronounced dead at 9:17pm local time on Thursday after being given a lethal injection at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarrat.
The 49-year-old had fought to prove that he was intellectually disabled to bar the state from putting him to death.
But a federal appeals court in Virginia upheld his death sentence in June and the US supreme court refused on Thursday to block his execution. A federal judge separately rejected a concern that the drugs used to put him to death – pentobarbitol supplied by the Texas prison system – were unsafe.
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Friday 2 October 2015 03.00 BST
Virginia has executed Alfredo Prieto, a convicted serial killer who claimed he was intellectually disabled.
Prieto was pronounced dead at 9:17pm local time on Thursday after being given a lethal injection at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarrat.
The 49-year-old had fought to prove that he was intellectually disabled to bar the state from putting him to death.
But a federal appeals court in Virginia upheld his death sentence in June and the US supreme court refused on Thursday to block his execution. A federal judge separately rejected a concern that the drugs used to put him to death – pentobarbitol supplied by the Texas prison system – were unsafe.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/02/virginia-executes-serial-killer-alfredo-prieto-after-appeals-fail
