A former maintenance man who raped and killed a 13-year-old girl who lived at the trailer park where he worked gave the thumbs-up sign just before he was executed in Virginia's electric chair.
Albert Jay Clozza, 31, offered no final words before his execution Wednesday night. Earlier Wednesday, Clozza said in a statement that he did not expect forgiveness."I only ask that if you find someone who needs help, do not turn a blind eye to them, offer them a hand," he said.
Clozza was convicted of killing Patricia Beth Bolton in 1983. He abducted the girl as she walked home and raped, sodomized and beat her.
He became the 12th person to die in the electric chair since Virginia resumed executions in 1982 and the nation's 150th person executed since the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing states to resume capital punishment.