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October 2, 2015

Virginia Executes Alfredo Prieto amid Concerns about Execution Drugs 
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Virginia has executed death row prisoner Alfredo Prieto, following a
federal judge's decision Thursday to reject his lawyers' concerns that
the drugs used to put him to death were unsafe. Prieto was executed at
9:17 p.m. local time Thursday after being injected by a three-drug
cocktail that included the chemical pentobarbital, which was obtained
not from a pharmacy but from the Texas prison system.

 

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