Who’s been executed or on death row from Prince William

The following people convicted in Prince William County have been executed since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976:

• Timothy Dale Bunch, 33, executed Dec. 10, 1992, for robbing and killing 40-year-old Su Cha Thomas. Bunch, who had an intimate relationship with Thomas, shot her in the head and hanged her with a scarf from her bedroom doorknob in her Dale City home. He then stole jewelry from her home.

• Michael Carl George, 39, executed Feb. 6, 1997, for killing 15-year-old Alexander Sztanko. George abducted Sztanko as he rode his dirt bike along a power line trail in Woodbridge on June 16, 1990. He sexually assaulted the teen before shooting him in the head.

• Roy Bruce Smith, 50, executed July 17, 1997, for killing Manassas police Sgt. John Conner, 37. He shot Conner during a standoff at his home on Laurelwood Court on July 24, 1988.

• Dawud Majid Mu'Min, 44, executed Nov. 13, 1997, for killing 42-year-old Gladys Nopwasky. Mu'Min escaped from a prison work detail in Dale City on Sept. 22, 1988, and shot Nopwasky, a carpet store owner, more than a dozen times.

• Tony Albert Mackall, 34, executed Feb. 10, 1998, for killing 31-year-old Mary Elizabeth Dahn during a robbery. Mackall shot Dahn in the head during a robbery at her family's Shell gas station on Va. 123 near Occoquan on Dec. 9, 1986. About 30 minutes later, Mackall shot another man, who survived, at a Woodbridge town house.

• Carl Hamilton Chichester, 36, executed April 13, 1999, for killing Manassas pizza store manager Timothy Rigney, 30, during a robbery. Chichester shot the Lake Ridge resident at a Little Caesars Pizza restaurant in the Manaport Plaza shopping center when he could not open the cash register during a robbery on Aug. 15, 1991.

• Lonnie Weeks, Jr., 27, executed March 16, 2000, for killing Virginia State Police Officer Jose Cavazos. Weeks shot the 50-year-old Cavazos six times during a traffic stop on the Dale City exit ramp off Interstate 95 on Feb. 24, 1993.

The following people convicted in Prince William County are currently on death row:

• Paul Powell, 31, sent to death row Sept. 15, 2000, for killing 16-year-old Stacie Reed. On Jan. 29, 1999, Powell stabbed Reed and stomped on her throat to kill her before raping and attempting to kill her 14-year-old sister Kristie.

• Justin Michael Wolfe, 27, sent to death row June 26, 2002, for hiring hiring Owen Merton Barber IV to kill Wolfe's marijuana supplier, 21-year-old Danny Petrole Jr. Wolfe is the youngest person currently on Virginia's death row.

• Larry Bill Elliot, 59, sent to death row May 22, 2003, for killing 25-year-old Dana Thrall at Robert Finch's Woodbridge town house on Jan. 2, 2001. Elliot also killed the 30-year-old Finch and was convicted of first-degree murder for that. Elliot is the oldest person currently on Virginia's death row.

• John Allen Muhammad, 48, sent to death row March 9, 2004, for the 2002 Beltway sniper shootings, a three-week shooting spree in October 2002 that resulted in 10 deaths. In Prince William, Muhammad was convicted of shooting 53-year-old Dean Meyers when he was was pumping gas at a Sunoco station near Interstate 66 on Oct. 9, 2002.

What it takes to get the death penalty:

In Virginia murders with certain aggravating factors are considered capital murder, punishable by the death penalty. In addition to those special factors, the killing has to be "willful, deliberate and premeditated" for it to be capital murder. According to the Virginia code, the following offenses qualify as capital murder:

• murder committed during an abductio

• murder for hire

• murder committed by an inmate in a correctional facility

• murder during a robbery or attempted robbery

• murder committed in the commission of rape, attempted rape, forcible sodomy, attempted forcible sodomy or object sexual penetratio

• murder of a law enforcement officer

• murder of more than one person as part of the same act

• murder of more than one person within a three-year period

• murder committed for the continuing of a criminal drug enterprise

• murder of a pregnant woma

• murder of a child under the age of 14 by an adult over the age of 21

• murder committed during an act of terrorism

• murder of a judge

• murder of a witness in a criminal case in order to prevent them from testifying.