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DATE: FRIDAY, February 8, 1991                   TAG: 9102080495
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short


GIARRATANO MOVED TO PENITENTIARY

Death row inmate Joseph Giarratano was moved to the state Penitentiary Thursday to await his Feb. 22 execution for the rape and murder of a 15-year-old Norfolk girl.

Giarratano, 33, arrived in a van about 7:15 from Mecklenburg Correctional Center, which houses the state's death row cells. He is the only prisoner at the Penitentiary, which was closed in December. The state's electric chair remains at the prison until an execution chamber is completed at the new Greensville County prison complex. - Associated Press



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