Inside NOVA – Federal court considers Justin Wolfe’s release
Posted: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 9:30 am
Amanda Stewart | Prince William Today | 1 comment
The issue of whether or not capital murder defendant Justin Wolfe should be freed from the Prince William County jail was heard by a federal appeals court this week.
The Virginia attorney general’s office is appealing U.S. District Court Judge Raymond Jackson’s Christmas Eve ruling that ordered Wolfe’s release and barred prosecutors from retrying him on charges stemming from the 2001 death of Daniel Petrole, Jr., who was shot outside his townhouse in Bristow.
RTD – Va. man who killed two inmates is executed
Posted: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 9:08 pm | Updated: 11:26 pm, Wed Jan 16, 2013.
BY FRANK GREEN
Richmond Times-Dispatch
JARRATT – Robert Charles Gleason Jr., who strangled two fellow prison inmates, died in Virginia’s electric chair Wednesday night, unapologetic to the end.
Gleason, 42, was pronounced dead at 9:08 p.m. at the Greensville Correctional Center. Asked if he had a last statement, he said among other things, “Put me on the highway going to Jackson and call my Irish buddies. … God bless.”
AP – Va. Inmate Who Fought for Death Penalty Executed
A man who strangled his prison cellmate and made good on a vow to continue killing if he wasn’t executed has been put to death in Virginia’s electric chair.
Robert Gleason Jr. was pronounced dead by authorities at 9:08 p.m. Wednesday at the Greensville Correctional Center.
The 42-year-old inmate was the first executed in the U.S. this year and the first to choose to die by electrocution since 2010. In Virginia and nine other states, inmates can choose between electrocution and lethal injection.