A Virginia inmate who was sentenced to death for raping and killing an elderly woman in 2001 is facing an August execution.
Jerry Terrell Jackson, 29, is scheduled to be executed Aug. 18 for the murder of 88-year-old Ruth Phillips of Williamsburg.
If Jackson chooses lethal injection over electrocution, he would be the first Virginia inmate executed under a new drug protocol that replaces the sedative sodium thiopental in the three-drug cocktail with pentobarbital.
A nationwide shortage of sodium thiopental forced many states to substitute pentobarbital, but some have questioned its use. Defense attorneys called for an investigation after a Georgia inmate executed last week using the new drug appeared to struggle during the lethal injection.
6 comments:
Who cares if they struggle!!! there victims did not die pain free.
Agree with Jennifer... Who cares if they feel pain... the person they raped and killed felt pain just so this sick bastard can get his jollies off...
Just kill the S.O.B. all these bleeding heart liberals are ruining everything in this country. Who cares if the murderer rapist feel any pain his victims sure did.
Once again our liberal officials care more about the rights of the convicted criminal, rather than those of the victim or the family of the victim.
Wake up people! YOU and ONLY YOU have the power to elect officials that will change the way things are. Remember that fact the next time you want "Hope and Change" just because you're tired of the "same old, same old" or because it sounds cool.
Hang em high , with a smile.
2:03....
Just because you have the power to elect them, doesn't mean they'll do what you/I want and it sure as heck doesn't mean they'll do what they say......
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