Almost 30 years in this case.
Virginia executes convicted serial killer after appeals fail
JARRATT, Va. (AP) — A 49-year-old convicted of murdering three people in Virginia and California nearly three decades ago was executed on Thursday after a series of last-minute appeals failed.
Alfredo Prieto was pronounced dead at 9:17 p.m. at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt. Prieto was injected with a lethal three-drug combination, including the sedative pentobarbital, which Virginia received from the Texas prison system.
Prieto, wearing 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. Rachael Raver and her boyfriend, Warren Fulton III, both 22, were found shot to death in a wooded area a few days after being seen at a Washington, D.C., nightspot.
Prieto was on death row in California at the time for raping and murdering a 15-year-old girl and was linked to the Virginia slayings through DNA evidence. California officials agreed to send him to Virginia on the rationale that it was more likely to carry out the execution.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/law...nears-092928188.html
18 years for this one.
Georgia inmate Kelly Gissendaner executed after failed appeals
(CNN)After a five-hour delay, Georgia death row inmate Kelly Gissendaner was executed early Wednesday morning for her role in the killing of her husband.
Gissendaner was scheduled to die at 7 p.m. Tuesday, but her lawyers filed appeals to state and federal courts in her final hours to try to spare her life.
Her children had to make a heart-wrenching choice Tuesday: go see their mother one last time, or make a final appeal in front of the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles.
"We chose to try and save her life, and they still denied us," daughter Kayla Gissendaner said outside the state's execution facility in Jackson.
Even a recent letter on behalf of the Pope wasn't enough to sway the parole board.
So Gissendaner's legal team filed three appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court -- all of which were denied.
When Gissendaner finally walked to the execution chamber after midnight, she saw the witnesses through a window and began sobbing, witness Jeff Hullinger of WXIA-TV said.
She then made a final statement "apologizing to an amazing man that lost his life because of her," Hullinger said.
Gissendaner was convicted of murder for persuading her lover to kill her husband in 1997. She became Georgia's first female prisoner to be executed in 70 years.
As Gissendaner was being executed, the Gwinnett Daily Post reported, she sang "Amazing Grace."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/29/...ssendaner/index.html
A lot has been made of the fact that the actual killer didn't get death, because he "took a deal", and I don't agree with that at all. BUT, reports say she was offered the same deal and refused, and got death. IMO neither should have been given the option to deal and he should have suffered the same fate as she, but both of them sooner.