A killer who argued Virginia's procedures for lethal injection were unconstitutional was executed Thursday after the 4th Circuit upheld the primary method of capital punishment in the country's second-busiest death chamber. Christopher Scott Emmett was convicted of beating a co-worker to death with a brass lamp so he could steal the man's money to buy crack cocaine. "Tell the governor he just lost my vote," Emmett said while in the execution chamber. "Y'all hurry this along, I'm dying to get out of here."
July 28, 2008 at 12:00 AM
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A killer who argued Virginia’s procedures for lethal injection were unconstitutional was executed Thursday after a federal appeals court upheld the primary method of capital punishment in the country’s second-busiest death chamber.
Christopher Scott Emmett, 36, was pronounced dead at 9:07 p.m. He was convicted of beating a co-worker to death with a brass lamp in 2001 so he could steal the man’s money to buy crack cocaine.
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