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Third post-Baze lethal injection conducted in Virginia

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this Reuters article, "Virginia put a convicted murderer to death by lethal injection on Tuesday in the third U.S. execution since the Supreme Court ended an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment last month."  Here are a few more details:Kevin Green, 31, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1998 shooting death of a convenience store owner during a robbery, was put to death shortly after 10 p.m. EDT at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia.... Green was the first person executed in Virginia since November 9, 2006, and the third death row inmate executed since the Supreme Court on April 16 upheld the three-drug cocktail used for lethal injections.... [T]he execution occurred after Gov...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 28, 2008 (boomark / email).