7 YEARS ON VIRGINIA DEATH ROW: CHRISTOPHER SCOTT EMMETT (EXECUTED: JULY 24, 2008)

            Christopher Scott Emmett was executed by lethal injection in Virginia on July 24, 2008. He murdered John F. Langley on April 27, 2001. Notice that he only spent seven years on death row after being sentenced to death on November 2, 2001! He is just like the D.C Sniper and Michael William Lenz, who also spent about 7 years on Death Row before being terminated from the face of the earth.

 

Christopher Scott Emmett

INTERNET SOURCE: http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/emmett1114.htm

Citations:
Emmett v. Commonwealth, 264 Va. 364, 569 S.E.2d 39 (Va. 2002) (Direct Appeal).

Emmett v. Warden of Sussex I State Prison, 269 Va. 164, 609 S.E.2d 602 (Va. 2005) (Stae Habeas)

Emmett v. Johnson, --- F.3d ----, 2008 WL 2736034 (4th Cir. 2008) (Sec. 1983).
Emmett v. Kelly, 474 F.3d 154 (4th Cir. 2007) (Habeas).

Final/Special Meal:

Emmett requested a particular last meal but asked that his choices be kept private.

Final Words:

"Tell my family and friends I love them, tell the governor he just lost my vote. Y'all hurry this along, I'm dying to get out of here."

Summary: Emmett and John Fenton Langley were sharing a room in a Danville motel in April of 2001 as part of an out-of-town roofing crew. On the night Langley was killed, he bought food and grilled for Emmett and other co-workers. They then played cards at the motel. Later Langley was killed as he slept. In a taped confession to police, Emmett admitted striking Langley in the head with a lamp in the motel room they were sharing, robbing him of $100, buying and smoking crack cocaine, then calling the police to report that something had happened to his roommate.

"My brother died a horrible, horrible death," said Gene Langley, 48, of Rocky Mount, N.C. "Christopher, he was a coward. ... He needs to be punished." Gene Langley and six other family members, including John Langley's adult daughter and son, plan to witness Emmett's execution. "It's not going to bring my brother back by no means in this world, but it does not allow him to live and that's what I'm after," Gene Langley said. "He didn't kill one person, he killed five — he killed a brother, he killed a son, he killed an uncle, he killed a father, and he killed a grandfather," he said.