The latest on the scheduled execution of a convicted serial killer in Virginia. All times local: 8:45 p.m. Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring's office say a convicted serial killer has no valid legal arguments to delay his execution. Attorneys for Herring filed a response to a last-minute emergency appeal lawyers for Alfredo Prieto filed late Thursday shortly before his scheduled 9 p.m. execution. In their filing with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Prieto's lawyers argued a federal judge had erred earlier Thursday when he ruled that there were not sufficient legal grounds to delay Prieto's execution over safety concerns about one of the lethal injection drugs the state intends to...
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