Rare media coverage footage of a Virginia execution by electrocution in the 1990's.
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- Virginia has abolished the death penalty but back in the 90's, the state was the most efficient in the nation at carrying out executions. This clip features the Roanoke Fox affiliate's live 10pm coverage from Jarratt, VA followed by rare raw video footage of media staging outside of what was known as the "Death Chamber" in the same complex as Death Row. News crews from all over the state waited while the execution by electric chair took place inside. The b-roll footage includes a morbid news conference from the prison spokesman. This execution was a 9/23/98 electrocution of a Bedford County man who killed his wife and infant son on Mother’s Day 1991.
Kenneth M. Stewart Jr. This just in: Although this execution took place in1998, an unnamed official in Virginia stated that he was pronounced dead on the day of execution and remains dead as of this post. Experts say they expect him to remain in that state for an extended period time. We will keep you updated if there is any change in Mr. Stewart's condition.
He will be raised on the last day so will you and I Hebrews 9:27
They didn't show the execution by electrocution because they thought it might be too shocking.
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Not.
Was expecting to see the Actual Execution.
So may cameras there for the men execution,. When this men kilted the people there no cameras there. He should of been executed same way as he did to his victim. To be killed quietly with no cameras.
yeah that was the click bait title
Some of these types of videos are nothing but click bait. Just like the tabloids, only in video form. 🤨
I'm gonna unsubscribe Click Bait!!!!
It’s illegal to film an execution in the USA
After killing both his wife and toddler son in 1991, Kenneth Stewart took the body of his son and put him in the arms of his wife. He posed them as a "Mother's Day card" for his mother-in-law, who discovered the bodies on that holiday.
What a demented thing to do.
yea I don't believe that
What a POS
@@Angel20263 ok? Lol
O god
@@Angel20263 well, it sucks that you don’t believe that, but that’s more than likely what happened, the same happened with Andrea Yates, she drowned all her kids in the bathtub and then set them up for her husband to find when he came home. People do sadistic things like this
When you make the choice to murder someone you deserve the same demise. The only wrong I see in it is it couldn't come sooner after being convicted
tell barry george
This is the aftermath of the execution, not the execution itself, just saying 😻
How do you shoot your child in the head twice???? I can never understand 😓😓😓
Sad
Executions should be televised on Pay per View.
Yes! Like the Romans?
Yes! Public hangings and whippings?
Yes! Crime would go down :)
Gary Gilmore held a party before his execution in 1977 and gladly went to the firing-squad in Utah
I can understand that I would rather be shot to than live rest of my life in Utah
Classic example of a coward who don't take rejection. RIP to the victims
Electrocution by electric chair doesn't bother me at all!
With all that live electricity at that site, they could have blown up all the NBC machinery and this would be a better world.
The real tragedy about this is that he performs this horrific act and then for 10 years they dick around trying to figure out whether or not they're going to actually put him to death. If you really believe in the death penalty it should be swiftly carried out if there is no question of guilt then the guilty party should be put to death within the following 12 months.
I agree. He was a big tough guy when he had the gun and proceeded to murder his wife and son, but when it came time to face his punishment, he acted like a whiney little coward, trying everything to get out of being fried. Instead of acting like an adult and accepting his punishment, he wasted thousands of tax payer dollars trying to save his own sorry ass.
Yes as some cop once said we could put once said we could put more people in prison if we didn't have the Constitution in our way. Not saying this guy was not a pr--k but we do have a Constitution. I know you were talking about if he knew what he did he should have been willing to man up.
The rule in the UK was that you had 3 Sundays between sentencing and execution. If an appeal was lodged (no automatic appeal, there had to be a legal justification for appealing the sentence) that appeal had to be heard by the court within those 3 weeks. The appeal was heard by the highest court so if it was rejected there was no further recourse for further appeal.
It should be less then that! if there is no question, then the prisoner should be put to death within 30 days period. it would save a lot of grieve, for the loved ones that lost there loved one, and save the state some money, taking care, and feeding the prisoner.this thing about caring for the prisoner for years is a bunch of bullshit, and it needs to end!!!!!
The problem with rushing an execution is that there may be new and important evidence that surfaces, even though it was widely believed that the defendant was guilty at the time.
Why call it a correctional centre? What's there to correct. just call it a liquidation centre of state sanctioned retribution.
Approximately 3,000 other inmates are housed at Greensville serving prison sentences, not facing execution.
Well, since we're sane, we don't call it that.
How about a justice center?
Kidding... I'm against capital punishment, but not against welding a lifer into his cell. You can undo the cell but not an execution.
I hardly think the news conference is morbid. Larry Traylor, the Department of Corrections communications director is factually relating what occurred that evening. It is some transparency versus just releasing a terse "inmate executed" message.
Executions always gain attention and require explanation due to the gravity of the sentence
@@violinistoftaupo Different states handled the aftermath of executions differently.
In Oklahoma - the communications director, waiting in a conference room near the prison gate, would answer the telephone from the death chamber and simply say "[Inmate name and Inmate number] was pronounced dead at 12:15 am" and that was it. No questions were taken.
Didn’t show the execution
Yeah a real brave man, killed his wife and five month old son. He was a coward and is burning in hell now. Good riddance. The only tragedy is that virginia has since abolished the death penalty.
What a "shocker".
I feel compassion & empathy for the people victims.
Me too especially for the 4% of those we have put to death for crime they are innocent for.
Death row in Virginia was never located at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt. It was located at Mecklenburg Correctional Center in Boydton until 1998 and afterwards at Sussex 1 State Prison near Waverly.
That's wrong it was Greenville my father in law was a CO there
@@matthewclemons2192 Death row (where inmates sentenced to death went to wait out their appeals) was at the Mecklenburg Correctional Center in Boydton from 1977 to 1998. It was moved to Sussex I State Prison in Waverly shortly after that facility opened in 1998. It remained at Sussex I until the abolition of the death penalty in 2022.
The execution chamber itself and four death watch cells (for condemned inmates facing imminent execution) were opened at Greensville Correctional Center in 1991 after the Virginia State Penitentiary closed in December 1990.
I didn’t have any relatives working there, but I was in touch with several operations officers there in the past as well as having myself served as an execution witness.
I bet the executioner was Jerry Givens.
Yes he was 100% . Jerry died last year of covid19 R.I.P. brotha
Jerry was a rather electrifying kind of guy!
@@RR98guyHe was so energetic. He often liked to switch things up.
It is said that death by electrocution could be described as a thousand hot needles sticking into your flesh, and that which ever ankle the return electrode is attached, it feels as though your ankle is being sawed through with a rusty crosscut saw.
Supposedly you go unconscious before your brain can even process the pain signals. So you don't feel any of that
Deserved worse.
@@ellisjackson3355 How do you know?
Only for a second.
No where near that ? I recived a big shock from 30 kva lines hit power lines i felt my mussels tighten up , my heart , saw the flash around me i could not move one inch , felt the power run through me , why iam a live to day i cant answer ,i have problems , some things i had to relearn my knee took the worse , had to have my knee joint replaced , i was hopeing my death was quick , i still have night mares , 12 years after
Can we see the execution live
No, but when Virginia had the death penalty, Virginia residents had the opportunity to apply and serve as one of six witnesses to executions.
One could not apply for a specific case. Rather after your name passed a background check, they would put you on a list and call you for a future case.
@@MontgomeryMall thanks
12:57 is the footage of the execution. thank me later
I heard 30 minutes electrocution , is that right ?
Explain why you care about an execution of a man who took someone's life away. Why do you care about the pain it brings the perpetrator. The man was a killer. The person he killed I had no choice but to suffer without someone like You protecting his killer. You're outrage shows what's wrong with this country. A killer should be put to death the same way he killed his victim. Your statement that the killer suffered as he was put to death shows that you have no respect for life, because the life that counted was the life that was taken away by the killer.. the killers in this country live too long after they've tortured people. They need to be taken out of society because society is not about killing other people. The ten commandments says thou shalt not kill. There should be no horror if the killer suffers during his death. The horror should be for the victim. The more people like you care about the killer, in any manner, need to think about how little you care about human beings. The killer has lost his right to be a human being. You should be ashamed of yourself for having no respect for life. Killing the killer of another human is like executing a bug. The killer is no better than a bug you step on. You're an offensive person. I am embarrassed for you
@@stevensmeyersHoly shit. I'm a year late, but do you feel better?
Sweet now put Chris Watts in that chair.
Is that the Chris Watts in Colorado who killed his wife and 2 daughter? Can't be done, no death penalty in Colorado
@Donnell Okafor No it does not.
I thought we would see some pop corn popping
He accepted the chair as an offering to our blessed lord
I saw no footage
volume too low.
I wonder if that smoke coming out at 8:28 of clip has anything to do with the execution. I also wonder if the reporters outside know or have a suspicion when the switch was thrown.
Probably, that was a diesel powered generator set probably used to produce the required current for the chair. Some of these generators can produce power at 4160 volts or 600 volts and then are by a transformer stepped down or stepped up to create the required voltage usually around plus or minus 2000 volts.
@@MontgomeryMall Regardless of whether that smoke was connected to the execution or from a large HVAC system. I can clearly hear a generator set running in the audio. I know because I used to take care of several large industrial generator sets back in the early 2000's
Very scary either way.
If an inmate being electrocuted in whichever state whether it's Tennessee, Florida, or the others like Georgia, or Nebraska in the past; if an inmate doesn't go unconscious instantly it would be Unbelievable torture. I can't imagine such a torture of 2000 volts with 8 amperes (current). The current or the force is what kills the inmate I think they do like 2000 volts for 10 seconds as not to cook the inmate, followed by 600 volts or so for a minute, and 2000 volts for 10 seconds again. This way it disrupts the heart rhythm. Some states may do it more or less as far as the voltage but pretty similar in general. A heavier inmate requires more juice. I wonder what would happen if ONLY the head electrode were attached, and not the leg. I think the inmate could still die, but it would take longer, and it would be messier if he isn't grounded. The inmate would certainly be unconscious I would think. I guess the leg is necessary to complete a circuit. It's still possible for the inmate to die i would think if 2000 volts is coming through the head electrode. I wouldn't want to be part of the staff to remove the inmate. It's probably guys from a funeral parlor who wear gloves and a white gown to protect themselves who removes the inmate from the chair.
@@msw600 Its not the voltage that kills its the amps. It doesn't take even an amp to kill if you are grounded. It seems like I read somewhere it only take maybe 20 mili-amps to kill if their is a good connection to ground. Correct me if I am wrong.
they guy was dead but yet the media wants to ask all these stupid questions maybe if they televised it the media would stop asking stupid questions
I think they should. What are they hiding?
@@wildphil64An absolutely abhorrent sight that you actually don't wanna watch, perhaps...
@@WilDBeestMF my point exactly….
So he needed to kill his son also? I would have been glad to flip the switch.
Strate to he'll for him may the lord have mercy on him..
Because the Lord has mercy, He sent Jesus to die for our sins. No matter what we have done we can be forgiven if we repent with a true heart and ask for forgiveness.
Since you are not God you do not get to decide who goes STRAIGHT to Hell. In fact, God leaves that up to us! We send ourselves to Hell by rejecting Jesus.
There is every reason to believe that this former killer is in Eternity with the Lord. One hint of his change is in why he rejected lethal injection and chose the electric chair.
How can
he go to hell and the Lord have mercy on him?
"...and it's a beautiful night for an execution, we'll return to the execution after this message"
Very soft volume ???
click bait. you will not “see” the execution
disgusting act by the state
Disgusting act by the perpetrator. The state is giving the victim's family what's theirs.
She should've reconciled with him. Seems like a great husband and father.
Omg you didn't say that!!!!!!
so...Virginia abolished the death penalty.
This could have been edited.
This should have been edited.
You've lost me.
This needs to be done more often in America. Yes , it does deter people.
No it doesn’t.
@@darleneww3670 I disagree.
Crimes are committed in the heat of the moment without a single thought for the consequences. Others are so arrogant that they think they'll never get caught. Both cases end up in the chair time after time, year after year.
It never has been, and it never will be a deterrent.
@@WilDBeestMF We disagree.
@@bobhope3716 It's fun to ignore facts and believe your own narrative, ain't it?
my right ear enjoyed the video
video of a parking lot :>(
Boring
He was in jail way to long. Should have been done the first year. Makes a mockery of the victims death.
"A long 3 minutes".
Waste of time, skip it.
Electrocution in its current form needs to be upgraded it’s so crude and smelly….in a word….(downright} infukenhumane….i wish I coulda evacuated these you gems.
Glad he Fried slowly fried slowly
Misleading title
Completely false headings, this is no different to other death penalty accounts
click bate headline
Did the lights flicker?
That's a Hollywood myth lol
Whats rare about this?
Clickbait
Sad was the cause but, justice be had.
Good
Where's the goddam sound?!
oh well....dead is dead......
Burn baby burn 🔥 break out the popcorn 🍿
Praise God 4 justice and old sparky.
Yup, absolutely a thing a good loving Christian should be doing 🙄
Looks like coverage of the coverage to me
Cofefe
Be iPhones we had this in the 90s …lol
Before 4 I meant
There is no god just an infinite void nothing u just go back to your beginning before u were born
Awwwww, aren't you just precious. You think you're right. 🙄 Bless your heart.
@@allisonjohnson6399I don't know about the infinite void, but there is little to no evidence of the existence of a higher power of any kind.
can we get free tickets for trump for that ride?
"performed without incident" well apart from someone being killed. Remarkable how people think they can play god and speak on God's behalf. Hearing voices is generally a sign of mental ill health yet people say God spoke to them and no-one questions their sanity. And how often do those same people who believe in execution say that an abortion is murder because they believe in the sanctity of life.
An eye for an eye dude
@@tonybeck8624 You do realise that the church does not generally preach from the old testament apart from a few who use religion as a tool to oppress their congregation. Forgiveness is their mantra these days. That doesn't exclude punishment or forgetting what the person did, it just means that they do not speak for god and cannot pass a sentence of death cause that as I already said is playing god.
I mean. Who else is gonna speak on behalf of God? That motherfunker never lifts a finger.
State barbarians
Barbarians