The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Tuesday, January 3, 1995               TAG: 9501030105
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B9   EDITION: FINAL 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   20 lines

DEATH CHAMBER

ILLUSTRATION: ASSOCIATED PRESS photo

On Jan. 20, Dana Ray Edmonds of Danville will likely become the

first person to be executed at the new Virginia death chamber,

above, at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va. During

the last regular session of the General Assembly, lawmakers gave

condemned inmates a choice between the electric chair and

injection.

KEYWORDS: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT by CNB