Virginia Executes Serial Killer

California officials agreed to send him to Virginia on the rationale that it was more likely to carry out the execution. As reported by The Christian Science Monitor, his lawyers had made an appeal to the state of Virginia to spare his life.

Prieto’s execution faced a potential delay because of his legal team’s concerns about the safety of one of the drugs Virginia used in the execution.

Hudson said Prieto’s lawyers had not adequately shown that the drugs are unsafe and that it was in the public interest to proceed with the execution.

Prieto was convicted in 2010 of the 1988 murders of Rachel Faver and her boyfriend, Warren Fulton, in Fairfax County, a Washington suburb.

A federal judge has scheduled a hearing to consider a Virginia inmate’s challenge to his execution hours before he is set to be put to death.

Attorneys for the inmate, Alfredo Prieto, 49, argued that pentobarbital, the first drug to be administered in the three-drug lethal injection, lacked a sterility test. The 49-year-old was injected with a lethal three-drug combination, including the sedative pentobarbital, which Virginia received from the Texas prison system.

The lawyers said the pentobarbital came from an “unknown compounding pharmacy” and that the Food and Drug Administration had not assessed it “for quality or authenticity”.

Prieto’s lawyers also appealed to the Supreme Court citing Prieto’s low IQ as an intellectual disability.

A federal judge says he will issue a ruling shortly on whether Virginia can execute a convicted serial killer.

Last week, Texas provided execution drugs to Virginia state officials for the execution. Not at all like in California, Virginia has done executions of most detainees who have been sentenced to death. Virginia officials said in court filings he had been convicted of killing or suspected of killing at least nine people.

Virginia executed a convicted murderer Thursday night.

Alfredo Prieto was pronounced dead at 9:17 p.m. on Thursday at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarrat.

The U.S. Supreme Court has also rejected Prieto’s request to stay the execution because he claims he is intellectually disabled.

He was then on death column in California for the 1990 assault and murder of a 15-year-old young lady, who was kidnapped alongside two other young ladies in Ontario.

But the case has been transferred to a new judge in Richmond and it’s uncertain what action he will take.