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JARRATT, Va. — A Virginia man who raped and suffocated an 88-year-old widow has become the state’s first inmate executed using a new drug cocktail.
Jerry Terrell Jackson, 30, was executed by lethal injection Thursday at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt. He was sentenced to death for the August 2001 rape and murder of Ruth Phillips in her Williamsburg apartment.
Like other states, Virginia replaced the sedative sodium thiopental with pentobarbital in the three-drug cocktail after a nationwide shortage of the drug.
