Alfredo Rolando Prieto
Alfredo Rolando Prieto grew up in El Salvador and moved to California as a teenager. Before his death he thanked his lawyers, supporters and family members. The Virginia Department of Corrections said he was executed by lethal injection at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia, on October 1, 2015. His lawyers argued that the pentobarbital to be used was untested and could leave him conscious while paralyzed, and that he was intellectually disabled. The courts and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to halt the execution, and the ACLU of Virginia called it shameful.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state. His lawyers argued he was intellectually disabled and that the untested pentobarbital could leave him conscious while paralyzed; the ACLU of Virginia called the execution shameful.
Reported by: Virginia Department of Corrections (the agency that held him); his lawyers; the courts and U.S. Supreme Court (court); ACLU of Virginia (advocates).