Posted on 05/28/2008 4:41:55 AM PDT by Baladas
JARRATT, Va. — Lawrence Vaughan didn't get to see his wife's funeral. But after nearly 10 years, he was able to see her killer take his last breaths.
Vaughan and his family watched Tuesday as Kevin Green, 31, was executed by lethal injection for killing Patricia Vaughan in August of 1998 when he robbed the store she and her husband owned in rural Brunswick County. Green was pronounced dead at 10:05 p.m. at Greensville Correctional Center.
It was Virginia's first execution in nearly two years and the third in the U.S. since the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of lethal injections in April. Georgia became the first to execute an inmate May 6, ending a seven-month halt on capital punishment nationwide.
The U.S. Supreme Court, a federal judge and Gov. Timothy M. Kaine each refused Tuesday to halt the execution.
Green's execution was scheduled to begin at 9 p.m. but was delayed for about an hour when his attorneys attempted to get the federal judge to issue a temporary restraining order. They contended that a case argued last week challenging the constitutionality of Virginia's lethal injection procedure should be decided before Green was put to death.
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What took you so long?
"Texas has an express lane" ~ Ron White
The old kitchen sink strategy: another death penalty case is being appealed, the jury was messed up, the lawyer was ineffective, and the client was mentally defective. How can liberals look at a cold-blooded killer like this guy and go through the list of traditional excuses while ignoring reality? The reality is that the murderer was mentally competent to pull the trigger, and the lawyer was ineffective because his client was guilty. I thank God that this predator is gone from the world and everyone is a little safer.
Per capita, the Commonwealth of Virginia leads Texas.
I thought it said, "Virginia Performs First Exorcism Since 2006" and I was about to make fun of them. Now, I might just applaud them. Hooray for dyslexia.
Best line of the bay
Pathetic!
If that’s true we in Texas are gonna have to kick it up a notch.
Welcome back to the fold Virginia.Georgia has another one up for next month.There will be”Room at the inn”soon.
Hell yeah - there’s supposed to be a flurry over executions that were back-logged because of the SCOTUS case.
Let the games begin!
And one less mouth to feed. There should be a one appeal law in effect. If you get convicted the first time....take your punishment. If you appeal and lose the second time.....one shot one kill ten minutes after the verdict.
Maybe not. In Texas executions seem (to me) to occur sooner after conviction than any place else in the United States. Therefore, your executions are perceived as more effective. Texas may be getting more deterrent effect per execution than any place else. All the murderers deterred don't need to be executed. See, if you do executions right, you don't need to do it over and over again and you save more victims in the process.
God bless Texas.
Most people in Texas see executions for what they should be seen for, deterrence, closer for the victims families and vengeance for the perpetrators murderous act. Most of us pray for his soul but deep down wish for him an eternal hell.
My state finally returns to sane law enforcement.
But hasn't executed anyone since 2006?
That's redundant. HE cannot keep spending all of HIS time here.
LOL The dirtbags get all upset when we cancel Christmas on the scumbags yet you hear nothing from them concerning the victum and family.Liberalism is an advanced form of syphilis is all I can come up with.
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