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Friday, August 19, 2011

Va. Executes Man Who Raped, Killed Elderly Widow

(AP)

JARRATT, Va. - A Virginia man who raped and suffocated an 88-year-old widow has become the state's first inmate executed using a revised, three-drug cocktail.

Jerry Terrell Jackson, 30, was pronounced dead at 9:14 p.m. Thursday at Greensville Correctional Center. Jackson was sentenced to death for the 2001 rape and murder of seamstress Ruth Phillips in her Williamsburg apartment.

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Meet the Devil, Jerry!!!
Maybe you'll be raped and suffocated repeatedly throughout your eternity in Hell!

Anonymous said...

I'm coming, Virginia!

Anonymous said...

Get on ,to all states.

Flerndip said...

Good riddance!!

Anonymous said...

Glad of it, but he got better than he gave that poor woman.

Anonymous said...

Now if only O'Malley would get off his dumb arse and get it going here in MD.