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Greensville Correctional Center is a prison facility located in unincorporated Greensville County, Virginia, [3] near Jarratt. The prison, on a 1,105-acre (447 ha) plot of land, is operated by the Virginia Department of Corrections . [ 4 ]
All were convicted of capital murder; all but one were male. Between 1982 and 1990, all executions were carried out at the Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond. After the prison closed in 1991, all subsequent executions were carried out at Greensville Correctional Center.
Execution [ edit ] After a clemency petition to Governor of Virginia Mark Warner was rejected, along with an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court , Earl Bramblett was executed in the electric chair for the murder of the Hodges family at Greensville Correctional Center , Jarratt, Virginia , on April 9, 2003.
The execution chamber moved from the former Virginia State Penitentiary to Greensville in 1991. [10] On August 3, 1998, the male death row moved from Mecklenburg Correctional Center to Sussex I. [11] In 1992, Roger Keith Coleman was executed by the state for the 1981 rape and murder of his sister-in-law Wanda McCoy. Coleman's case drew national ...
Timothy Wilson Spencer was executed on April 27, 1994, at Greensville Correctional Centre in Jarratt, Virginia. He was put to death in the electric chair. [10] He was pronounced dead at 11:13 p.m. EST. He declined to give a final statement before his execution. [11]
Gleason was executed by electric chair at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia, on January 16, 2013, at 9:08 p.m. He was the first person executed in the United States in 2013. He had a last meal that he wanted kept secret. His last words were purportedly, "Well, I hope Percy ain't going to forget to wet the sponge. Put me on ...
On October 1, 2015, Prieto was executed by lethal injection at the Greensville Correctional Center at 9:17 p.m., in the presence of state witnesses and some of the victims' family members. Shortly before his execution, his lawyers filed a lawsuit to delay the execution date on the grounds that drugs used for the process were unsafe.
Teresa Wilson Bean Lewis (April 26, 1969 – September 23, 2010) was an American murderer who was the only woman on death row in Virginia prior to her execution. [2] She was sentenced to death by lethal injection for the murders of her husband and stepson in October 2002.