http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/17/us-virginia-execution-idUSTRE77G5VT20110817(Reuters) - A man convicted of raping and killing an elderly Virginia woman will on Thursday be the first inmate put to death in that state this year unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes to stop the execution.
Jerry Terrell Jackson, 30, is scheduled to be executed at 9 p.m. local time on Thursday at the Greensville Correctional Center, south of the state capital, Richmond, using a cocktail that includes the drug pentobarbital, a sedative.
Governor Bob McDonnell has declined to grant clemency in the case, and only an appeal currently before the Supreme Court could stay the execution.
Jackson, on death row since 2003, entered the Williamsburg apartment of 88-year-old Ruth Phillips on August 26, 2001. He told police he did not know Phillips was home.
But she was lying in bed at the time and confronted Jackson. She told him to take what he wanted and leave, but he held a pillow against her face until she stopped screaming, raping her at the same time.
Jackson later left the apartment through a back window with $60. He stole Phillips' car and used the money to purchase marijuana. Phillips' body was found by her son afhttp://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/17/us-virginia-execution-idUSTRE77G5VT20110817ter she did not attend church or answer her telephone.
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