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JARRATT, Va. (AP) -- A Virginia man was executed Thursday for beating and stabbing his 79-year-old neighbor to death while he and a friend ransacked her apartment.

Kent Jermaine Jackson, 26, was pronounced dead at 9:18 p.m. at Greensville Correctional Center. He received a lethal injection for the 2000 murder of Beulah Mae Kaiser in Newport News.



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A man who killed a store owner by sawing at his neck with a pocketknife during a 1997 robbery became the 100th person executed in Virginia since capital punishment was reinstated three decades ago.

Robert Stacy Yarbrough was pronounced dead at 9:28 p.m. Wednesday at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt. The 30-year-old was put to death by injection for the 1997 slaying of 77-year-old Cyril Hugh Hamby.



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