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Murderer:
Albert Clozza
Execution Date: July 24, 1991
Jurisdiction: City of Virginia Beach
Victim:Patricia
Bolton
In February, 1983, Clozza abducted Bolton, his 13 year old
neighbor in a Virginia Beach trailer park as she made her
way back from visiting a bookmobile. Bolton was dragged
across a field into nearby woods, raped, sodomized and severely
beaten in the face.
According to the report of the medical examiner, Bolton
died from inhaling her own blood and she had been violated
with a 4 inch twig. Her body was found the day after the
abduction, nude except for wearing one sock.
Murderer: Derick Peterson
Execution Date: August 22, 1991
Jurisdiction: City of Hampton
Victim: Howard
Kauffman
On the afternoon of Feb. 7, 1982, Peterson walked into the
office cubicle of the Pantry Pride on West Pembroke Avenue
in Hampton, grabbed several thousand dollars in checks and
cash, then fatally shot the 45-year-old Kauffman once in
the stomach before leaving.
Murderer: Roger Coleman
Execution Date: May 20, 1992
Jurisdiction: Buchanan County
Victim:
Wanda
McCoy
Coleman attacked his sister-in-law McCoy after gaining
access to her Grundy home on March 10, 1981. She was brutally
attacked with a knife, having her head nearly severed
from her body and was raped just a few minutes prior to
her husband returning home from working in the nearby
coal mines.
During the latter part of his death sentence appeals,
Coleman drew a considerable amount of media attention
as being a possible victim of a wrongful conviction. Supporters
of Coleman tried to cast blame on a neighbor of Wanda
McCoy as being the real perpetrator of the rape and murder.
However, DNA tests that were conducted by Coleman's own
chosen genetic expert could not exclude Coleman from being
in a subgroup within a very narrow percentage of the population
with the genetic characteristics to have committed the
crime. Meanwhile, the alternative suspect did not have
the blood type that was found in the evidence at the scene.
Coleman had previously
served time in prison for an attempted rape of another
woman in Grundy. Additionally, his whereabouts on the
evening of March 10, 1981 were never resolved with a verifiable
alibi.
An hour before the McCoy murder, Coleman made an unexpected
visit to the trailer of a female friend on the pretenses
of returning an audio tape. He quickly departed after
finding her husband was home. It seems quite reasonable
to assume that had the husband not been present, this
woman would have been Coleman's intended victim.
Murderer: Edward Fitgerald
Execution Date: July 23, 1992
Jurisdiction: Chesterfield County
Victim:
Patricia
Cubbage
Cubbage was tortured by machete wielding Fitzgerald and
an accomplice after being abducted from home in Chesterfield
County in 1980. She was hacked 184 times by Fitzgerald's
machete. A tic-tac-toe pattern was hacked in her back
by Fitzgerald while she was conscious. Pleading to be
shot dead and put out of her misery, Cubbage ultimately
died from blood loss.
Murderer: Willie Jones
Execution Date: September 15, 1992
Jurisdiction: Charles City County
Victims:
Graham Adkins
Myra Adkins
Jones was electrocuted for the murders
of Graham and Myra Adkins in their Charles City home.
He knew the Adkins couple, who were in their late 70s,
through their son.
On May 13, 1983, Jones disguised himself and hitchhiked
to Charles City. He knocked on the Adkins' door and identified
himself as an undercover police officer who was looking
for missing children. Once inside the house, he shot and
killed Adkins, then bound and gagged his wife.
Jones stuffed Mrs. Adkins in
a closet, shot her in the head and poured kerosene on her
while she was still alive. He blasted open a bedroom safe
and stole the couple's life savings of more than $30,000,
then set the house on fire in an attempt to hide his crimes.
Murderer: Timothy Dale Bunch
Execution Date: December 10, 1992
Jurisdiction: Prince William County
Victim:Su
Cha Thomas
On January 31, 1982 - 28 year old Marine sergeant Timothy
Bunch met 40 year old Su Cha Thomas at her Dale City apartment
for dinner.
Bunch and Ms. Thomas, a divorcee, had "developed
an intimate relationship" while Bunch was temporarily
stationed at the U.S. Marine Corps base in Quantico. Soon
after the slaying, he was transferred to his permanent
duty station in Japan.
Ms. Thomas
was shot in the head and then hanged from a doorknob with
one of her scarves. Bunch told an investigator that he
believed his victim was "a slut" who reminded
him of his ex-wife. He said he had a sexual orgasm when
he killed her. Bunch stole a Rolex watch, diamond ring
and pearl necklace from the house and then ransacked it,
apparently to make it appear the slaying had been committed
by someone who had broken into the house to rob it.
Murderer: Charles Stamper
Execution Date: January 19, 1993
Jurisdiction: Henrico County
Victims:
Agnes
Hicks
Franklin Cooley
Stephen Staples
These three employees of a Shoney's restaurant on Staples
Mill Road in Henrico County were murdered there by coworker
Charles Stamper during an early morning robbery on March
25, 1978. The victims were herded into a walk-in freezer at gunpoint
by Stamper and then shot dead. Their bodies were discovered
by an employee who arrived later that morning. Stamper netted
$4,000 in the robbery.
While on death row at Mecklenburg Correctional Center, Stamper
was suspected of being a snitch and was attacked by a fellow
inmate -- leaving him paralyzed.
Disabled advocacy groups urged Governor Doug Wilder not
to treat Stamper any differently by granting him clemency
on account of his handicap. Wilder chose not to intervene
and Stamper was executed after being carried to Virginia's
electric chair by guards in 1993.
Murderer: Syvasky Poyner
Execution Date: March 18, 1993
Jurisdiction: City of Newport News
Victims:
Joyce Baldwin
Louise Paulett
Vicki Ripple
Chestine Brooks
Carolyn Hedrick
Poyner
admitted to murdering five women during an 11-day spree
that terrorized the Newport News area in early 1984. He
told police he committed the daytime crimes at random,
purposely picking easily frightened victims and getting
little money.
Murderer: Andrew Chabrol
Execution Date: June 17, 1993
Jurisdiction: City of Virginia Beach
Herrington was abducted,
raped and murdered by Chabrol on July 9, 1991 in retaliation
for filing sexual harassment charges that led to his dismissal
from the Navy. She was abducted at 6:25 am from in front
of her Virginia Beach townhouse, then driven to Chabrol's
house in Albemarle Acres in Chesapeake, where she was
brutally killed.
Chabrol opted not
to appeal his conviction nor expressed any regrets for
having committed the homicide, which he viewed as an act
of revenge.
Murderer: Joe Wise
Execution Date: September 14, 1993
Jurisdiction: Mecklenburg County
Victim:
William
Ricketson
Wise robbed Mecklenburg Correctional Center employee Ricketson
in nearby Boydton in December, 1983. He proceeded to beat
Ricketson, shot him with two guns and dumped him in a hole
that had been dug for a toilet behind an old factory plant
in Chase City. A skull fracture and gunshot wounds would
have eventually killed the victim, but Ricketson died as
a result of drowning in water which had accumulated in the
hole. Wise, aged 29, then stole Ricketsons' truck.
Murderer: David Pruett
Execution Date: December 16, 1993
Jurisdiction: City of Virginia Beach
Victims:
Wilma
Harvey
Debra McInnis
On February
12, 1985, Pruett raped, robbed and killed Wilma Harvey,
the wife of the restaurateur who had recently given Pruett
a job. The husband was out of town on business on that
day. Wilma Harvey's nude body, with multiple stab wounds,
was found on her bed with her hands tied behind her back.
After being arrested for that crime, which was tried as
capital murder, Pruett confessed to robbing and killing
Debra McInnis, a coworker at a Kentucky Fried Chicken
in 1975. He received a death sentence for Harvey's murder
and a life sentence for the McInnis' murder.
Murderer: Johnny Watkins
Execution Date: March 3, 1994
Jurisdiction: City of Danville
Victims:
Betty Barker
Carl Buchanan
Johnny Watkins was convicted of murdering convenience store
clerks Betty Barker and Carl Buchanan in an eight day crime
spree in Pittsylvania County and the City of Danville in
November, 1983.
The robbery and murder of Barker occurred first. Watkins
entered the Pittsylvania County store, bought some cigarettes
and then shot her twice over the counter. He then stole
$89.89 from the cash register. The robbery of Buchanan little
over a week later in Danville netted $34.74 from the cash
register. Bullets from the crimes matched Watkins' pistol
and his brother Darnell Watkins testified as a state witness
at the trials, admitting that he and his brother planned
the robberies.
Another brother, Ronald Watkins, was executed in 1998, for
seperate crimes committed in Danville.
Murderer: Timothy Spencer
Execution Date: April 27, 1994
Jurisdictions: Arlington County, City of Richmond
Victims:
Susan Tucker,
Debbie Davis,
Susan Hellams
Diane Cho
Spencer was Richmond's "Southside
Strangler," whose seemingly random crimes against
sleeping female victims terrorized the region in the fall
of 1987. Spencer was particularly outrageous as he attacked
victims as they slept in their own homes. In one instance,
he bound, raped and strangled 15-year-old Diane Cho while
her parents and brother slept in the same apartment. He
also bound, raped and killed three other women. He was
identified as the culprit by DNA evidence and was the
first defendant executed as a result of DNA evidence at
trial.
After his conviction, Spencer refused to speak with criminal
profilers who sought to analyze his behavior and motives
for committing the crimes. He died unrepentantly in Virginia's
electric chair on April 27, 1994.
Murderer: Dana Edmonds
Execution Date: January 24, 1995
Jurisdiction: City of Danville
Victim:John
Elliott
In July, 1983, Edmonds murdered Elliott, a grocer in the
City of Danville during a robbery. Elliot was first gagged,
then stabbed in the neck with a knife and hit in the head
with a brick by Edmonds. The robbery netted $40 for Edmonds
and Elliot was left behind the counter by the cash register,
where he bled to death from his injuries.
Murderer:
Willie Lloyd Turner
Execution Date: May 25, 1995
Jurisdiction: Southampton County
Victim:Jack
Smith
Jewelry store owner was killed by Turner, a lifelong criminal,
during a robbery in Franklin, VA in June, 1978. While incarcerated,
Turner vexed prison officials by helping to plot the 1984
escape of six fellow inmates from death row at Mecklenburg
Correctional Center as well as conceal a loaded pistol in
his typewriter which was discovered only after his execution.
Turner had previously committed one murder in prison during
the 1970's.
Murderer: Dennis Stockton
Execution Date: September 27, 1995
Jurisdiction: Patrick County
Victim:Kenneth
Arnder
In 1978, Stockton killed his young victim in Patrick County
after being paid $1,500 by another man. The victim was shot
in the head and his hands were severed at the wrist. Stockton
was also involved in at least one other murder in nearby
North Carolina at this time.
Murderer: Mickey Davidson
Execution Date: October 19, 1995
Jurisdiction: Smyth County
Victims:
Doris Davidson
Mamie Clatterbuck
Tammy Clatterbuck
Mickey Wayne Davidson,
38, admitted bludgeoning his wife, Doris Jane Davidson,
and her daughters Mamie Darnell Clatterbuck and Tammy Lynn
Clatterbuck with a crowbar in June 1990. He said he murdered
his Smyth County family because his wife decided to return
to her former husband.
Murderer: Herman Barnes
Execution Date: November 13, 1995
Jurisdiction: City of Hampton
Victims:
Clyde
Jenkins
Mohammed Afifi
Barnes killed a Hampton grocery
store owner and clerk during a robbery at Bon's Supermarket
on June 27, 1985. At approximately 10 pm that evening Barnes
accosted a clerk at gunpoint as he swept the parking lot
outside the store. After leading the clerk back into the
store at gunpoint as a human shield, Barnes was approached
by Clyde Jenkins, the 73 year old owner of the store.
A struggle between Jenkins and Barnes then occurred, resulting
in Barnes shooting Jenkins twice at point blank range. Another
employee, Mohammed Afifi, heard the commotion from the back
and ran to help. Afifi jumped on Barnes, who shook him off
and then shot him fatally. Just as Barnes was pointing the
gun at the clerk he originally accosted, Jenkins tried to
get up from the floor and was shot a third time by Barnes,
who then fled the scene.
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