USA - Virginia. Judge John C. Kilgore sentenced Robert C. Gleason Jr. twice to death.

Wise County Circuit Judge John C. Kilgore sentenced Robert C. Gleason Jr., 41, white, twice to death. One sentence was for killing inmate Harvey Watson, 63, on May 8, 2009, at Wallens Ridge State Prison in Big Stone Gap. The other was for killing inmate Aaron Cooper in July 2010 at Red Onion, the maximum-security prison built in Pound. Gleason had pleaded guilty previously to both slayings. He said in court and in an interview with The Associated Press last year that he would kill again if he wasn’t given the death penalty for Watson’s slaying. He initially received life in prison for the May 8, 2007, shooting death of Michael Kent Jamerson, 53. Jamerson was shot to death with his own pistol in an attempt to cover up any tracks in a methamphetamine dealing ring.