Virginia governor denies request to delay execution
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has denied a last-minute
attempt to delay the execution of a convicted serial killer who claims that
he's intellectually disabled.
Alfredo Prieto's attorneys had asked McAuliffe to grant a temporary reprieve
of his Oct. 1 execution so that the 49-year-old can be transferred to
California. His lawyers there hope to argue that Prieto is ineligible for
the death penalty because he's intellectually disabled.
A federal appeals court in Virginia upheld Prieto's conviction in June,
saying he failed to prove that no reasonable juror would find him eligible
for execution.
Prieto was already on death row in California for raping and murdering a 15-
year-old girl when he was sentenced to death in 2010 for the 1988 murders of
Rachael Raver and Warren Fulton III.
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