Alfredo R. Prieto was put to death Thursday for the 1988 rape and murder of Rachael A. Raver and the murder of her boyfriend, Warren Fulton III, in Fairfax County. Family Photo Alfredo R. Prieto, implicated in the slayings of nine people in two states, was executed Thursday night while a request for a stay of execution was pending in the U.S. Supreme Court. Prieto’s lawyers filed the request with the high court at 9:05 p.m., five minutes after the Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals turned down his request for a stay and five minutes after the execution was set to begin. His lawyers said the governor’s office also was informed at 9:05 p.m. that a stay request...
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