A man who stabbed a police informant at least 184 times and hacked a tic-tac-toe design in her back with a machete was executed in Virginia's electric chair.

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Edward B. Fitzgerald Sr. extended the first two fingers of each hand as if in a peace gesture as he was strapped into the chair late Thursday. He did not speak.Fitzgerald, 34, said Wednesday he had instructed his lawyers not to pursue last-minute appeals "unless it was something that was going to work." None was filed.

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