A twice-condemned serial killer who claimed he was intellectually disabled was executed in Virginia on Thursday after a series of last-minute appeals failed.
Executed: Alfredo Prieto, 49, a twice-condemned serial killer
49-year-old Alfredo Prieto, who is twice-condemned as a serial killer, was executed in Virginia on Thursday after a series of last-minute appeals failed.
The Deathrow convict was injected with a lethal three-drug combination, including the sedative pentobarbital, which Virginia received from the Texas prison system, was pronounced dead at 9:17 p.m. at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt.
He was executed at Greensville Correction Center on Thursday in Jarratt, Virginia
Prieto, who claimed he was intellectually disabled, wore glasses, jeans and a light blue shirt, did not resist and showed no emotion as he was strapped to the gurney. "I would like to say thanks to all my lawyers, all my supporters and all my family members," he said, before mumbling, "Get this over with."
The El Salvador native was sentenced to death in Virginia in 2010 for the murder of a young couple more than two decades earlier. He has been connected to as many as six other killings in California and Virginia, authorities have said, but he was never prosecuted because he had already been sentenced to death.
Prieto is the first inmate to be executed in Virginia in nearly three years.