Virginia Killer Executed
Associated Press
JARRATT, Va. —
A man who killed a teen-ager for $1,500 quoted the Bible before becoming the 300th person executed since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment 19 years ago.
Dennis W. Stockton, 54, was executed by injection for killing 18-year-old Kenneth Arnder in 1978 in what police said was a drug-related murder-for-hire plot. Arnder was found shot in the head and with his hands cut off.
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