Two Executions Scheduled this Evening.

Brandon Hedrick is scheduled to be executed this evening in Virginia. Hedrick, who chose electrocution over lethal injection, will be the first inmate since April 2003 to use Virginia’s electric chair. He was found guilty of abducting, sexually assaulting and murdering Lisa Alexander Crider in May of 1997. The Washington Post story states that Virginia, Florida and South Carolina give inmates the choice between electrocution and lethal injection.

Update: Hedrick was pronounced dead at 9:12 p.m. EDT. Washington Post story on the execution here.

Robert Anderson will be executed this evening in Texas by lethal injection. Anderson abducted a 5-year-old girl in front of his home in June of 1992. A neighbor discovered the girl’s body inside of a styrofoam ice chest in a dumpster. Anderson confessed that he abducted, assaulted, beat, stabbed and drowned the little girl before disposing of her body. Visit the Texas Department of Justice for more information on this inmate here.

Update: Anderson was pronounced dead at 6:19 p.m. CDT. AP story on the execution here.