Va. killer executed by electric chair

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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4062387.html

JARRATT, Va. — Like other Virginia inmates, a man convicted of raping and murdering a 23-year-old woman was allowed to choose how he would be executed: lethal injection or electric chair.

Apparently fearful of lethal injection, Brandon Hedrick on Thursday became the first person in the nation to die in the electric chair in more than two years. He was pronounced dead at the Greensville Correctional Center at 9:12 p.m.

"I pray for everybody that believes in Jesus Christ in heaven and I pray for the people that are unsaved," the 27-year-old said in his final words. "I'm ready to go and be free."

Since 1995, when the state began allowing inmates to choose the method of execution, three other Virginia inmates have opted for the electric chair.

Hedrick may have chosen the electric chair because he feared lethal injection, his attorney Robert Lee said.

[cornermouse]

1. I am, always have been, and always will be unalterably opposed to

executing the mentally ill and retarded. That along with our torture policy identifies us as no better than Saddam, Idi Amin, and a host of other evil world leaders.

[MrSlayer]

2. Ride the lightning.

Good riddance.

[pretzel4gore]

3. murder is just taking revenge in advance

of being murdered by state bureaucratic goofballs for committing, well, committing murder; and noone can deny the fairness of that!
the death penalty gives you the right to murder whoever you want, whenever you want!

[MrSlayer]

5. Right.

No one could possibly deny that brilliant logic.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. Electric chairs = Thomas Edison advertising pitch.

What century is this?