Killer of Officer Is Put to Death
From Times Wire Reports
Lonnie Weeks Jr., who killed a Virginia state trooper in 1993, was executed by lethal injection in Jarratt, Va., despite pleas for clemency from Amnesty International and the slain trooper’s children, a prison spokesman said. Weeks, 28, was put to death after Virginia Gov. James S. Gilmore dismissed a final clemency plea and the U.S. Supreme Court--which stayed Weeks’ execution last year less than two hours before he was to die--rejected a last-ditch appeal.
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