"I don't know about other places, but in Virginia they only execute murderers once. "

The inescapable fact is that no convicted murderer executed by the state has ever killed again.

He was a murderer executed by the State of Utah a few years back.

He was the sixth murderer executed in Louisiana since early June and the second this week.

It might mean executing insane or retarded murderers simply because society cannot afford to keep them alive.

He was the 48th murderer executed in Florida since that state's reintroduction of the death penalty in 1976.

HE was a 39-year-old convicted murderer, executed in Texas by lethal injection.

Used to be only executed murderers were dissected, as punishment for the most hateful of crimes.

If the family of the victim chooses to have the murderer executed, the family has the right to execute the convicted.

But Virginia has been executing convicted murderers fairly regularly under its state homicide statute.