Robert Charles Gleason Jr. Criminal executed in Virginia Country: USA

Biography of Robert Charles Gleason Jr.

Robert Charles Gleason Jr. was born on [insert date] in [insert location]. He gained notoriety as a convicted criminal who was executed in Virginia on January 15th in Portsmouth, Virginia. Gleason had already killed two of his fellow inmates and had been demanding his own execution for some time, even threatening to continue killing if he was not sentenced to death soon.

Despite the arguments of his court-appointed lawyer, who claimed that Gleason, who had spent a long time in solitary confinement, was not in a state to make life-altering decisions, the decision to carry out the death sentence was made. Gleason, however, refused to file a clemency petition, stating that he agreed with the sentence and believed he deserved to be executed. He was executed on the electric chair on January 15th, 2013, with his final words being "Kiss my ass."

Gleason had been serving a life sentence for murder and in 2009, he strangled another inmate with bed sheets. There are reports in court documents that Gleason had tortured his victim, 63-year-old Harvey Watson, before killing him. In 2010, he killed another inmate, 26-year-old Aaron A. Cooper. It was after this second murder that Gleason declared he would continue killing if his death sentence was not carried out, and he refused legal representation.

Gleason became the first person to be executed in the United States in 2013. Virginia is one of the nine states in America where the death penalty is carried out through electrocution or lethal injection. The last execution by electric chair in Virginia took place in March 2010, and a total of 43 criminals were executed in the United States the previous year.