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Va. Executes Man Who Raped, Killed Elderly Widow

Va. Executes Man Who Raped, Killed Elderly Widow

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. Thirty-year-old Jerry Terrell Jackson was executed by lethal injection at 9:14 p.m. Thursday at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt. Jackson was sentenced to death for the August 2001 rape and murder of Ruth Phillips in her Williamsburg apartment.

 

88-year-old charged with murder in alleged 'mercy killing' of wife

88-year-old charged with murder in alleged 'mercy killing' of wife

An 88-year-old man accused of killing his wife of 70 years at her nursing home to "put her out of her misery" was charged Tuesday with murder, prosecutors said.

 

Cops: Woman, 92, kills 98-year-old husband

A 92-year-old woman is charged with murder following the discovery of her 98-year-old husband's body at their home in Australia, police say.

 

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