Article: Va. Jury Sentences Gas Station Slayer To Electric Chair

A Prince William County jury decided yesterday that Tony A. Mackall should be executed in Virginia's electric chair for shooting a Woodbridge gas station attendant to death during a holdup last December.

Circuit Judge Herman A. Whisenant Jr. will impose sentence on Dec. 18. Under Virginia law, he can reduce the jury's death sentence. If he does not, Mackall, 23, will become the 33rd person on Virginia's death row, and the third person there because of a crime committed in Northern Virginia.

Mackall, who was convicted on Wednesday of capital murder, robbery and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, sat solemnly as the court clerk read the jury's decision, which came after two ...

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