A man convicted of killing a couple and their two young daughters in their Virginia home on New Year’s Day 2006 was put to death Wednesday.
(FOX)- Virginia authorities said 39-year-old inmate Ricky Gray was pronounced dead at 9:42 p.m. following a lethal injection at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt.
Asked if he had any final words before the death sentence was carried out, Gray responded, “Nope.”
Gray was sentenced to death in 2006 for the murders of 9-year-old Stella Harvey and 4-year-old sister Ruby, and to life in prison for the slayings of their parents, Bryan and Kathryn Harvey.
Gray’s attorneys had asked the U.S. Supreme Court to put execution plans on hold so they could pursue a lethal injection challenge. But the high court earlier Wednesday evening denied the request without explanation in a one-sentence order.