Just after 9:00 last night, the state executed a man who beat his co-worker to death with a brass lamp, took $100 from him, bought some crack cocaine, smoked it, then called police to say something was wrong with his friend.
Christopher Scott Emmett killed John Fenton Langley in a Danville motel room in April 2001. That October, a jury sentenced him to the death penalty. After many appeals and challenges of lethal injection as the state's method of execution, Emmett's day of death finally arrived.
The governor, of course, can intervene. Gov. Tim Kaine sent out a statement last night saying he declined to.
Emmett, 36, died at 9:07 p.m. His last words included a mention of the governor and even something that could be interpreted as a joke:"Tell my family and friends I love them, tell the governor he just lost my vote. Y'all hurry this along. I'm dying to get out of here."
Was that supposed to be a joke? How long did he spend thinking up that last line?
Christopher Scott Emmett killed John Fenton Langley in a Danville motel room in April 2001. That October, a jury sentenced him to the death penalty. After many appeals and challenges of lethal injection as the state's method of execution, Emmett's day of death finally arrived.
The governor, of course, can intervene. Gov. Tim Kaine sent out a statement last night saying he declined to.
Emmett, 36, died at 9:07 p.m. His last words included a mention of the governor and even something that could be interpreted as a joke:"Tell my family and friends I love them, tell the governor he just lost my vote. Y'all hurry this along. I'm dying to get out of here."
Was that supposed to be a joke? How long did he spend thinking up that last line?
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