Virginia executes 100th inmate

A man who killed a store owner by sawing at his neck with a pocket-knife during a 1997 robbery has been executed in Virginia.

Robert Stacy Yarbrough was pronounced dead this morning at Greensville Correctional Centre in Jarratt. The 30-year-old was put to death by lethal injection for the murder of 77-year-old Cyril Hugh Hamby.