Virginia Executes Man for Killing Peace Officer
<i> Associated Press</i>
RICHMOND, Va. —
Wilbert Lee Evans, who said he deserved another chance for helping protect prison workers during a Death Row breakout in 1984, was executed Wednesday night in Virginia’s electric chair for the 1981 murder of a sheriff’s deputy.
Evans, 44, was put to death 3 1/2 hours after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a stay of execution. Gov. L. Douglas Wilder also refused a request for clemency.
Evans was sentenced to die for shooting Alexandria Deputy Sheriff William Truesdale.
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