Va. governor won’t intervene in execution

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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell will not grant clemency to a man scheduled to be executed next week for a 2001 slaying in Williamsburg.

Jerry Terrell Jackson is slated to die by lethal injection Thursday for raping and killing 88-year-old Ruth Phillips in her apartment August 2001.

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