John Yancey Schmitt, was an inmate executed by lethal injection at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia on November 9, 2006. Schmitt was found guilty of the 1999 murder of Earl Shelton Dunning, 39. Schmitt, who was 25-years old when he committed the capital crime, was sentenced to death on February 18, 2000.
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