Kevin Green was put to death on Tuesday night, a decade after he robbed and murdered a convenience store owner in southern Virginia, in the state’s first execution since the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed lethal injection last month.

 Green, 31, saw his last-ditch appeals for clemency denied by the high court and then Virginia Gov. Kaine, who dismissed the assertion that Green was mentally retarded and unfit for the death penalty. Green is the fifth person executed in Virginia since Kaine took office in 2006.