Gunshots tear through the autumn night and a young couple lies grievously wounded.
They hold hands as her life slips away. Against all odds, he survives and, in a dramatic appearance on the witness stand, points to the man he is certain is the killer. If the execution by lethal injection takes place, Graham will be the 14th person to die in Virginia's death chamber this year, a record number since the death penalty was reinstated here in 1976. Per capita, among states with populations greater than 1 million, no state executes more people than Virginia. The U.S. Supreme Court has postponed four Virginia executions this year.