Brandon Hedrick

Brandon Wayne Hedrick (February 23, 1979 – July 20, 2006) was an American convicted murderer who was executed by the state of Virginia in the electric chair for the 1997 murder of 23-year-old Lisa Crider, who was kidnapped, robbed, raped, and shot in the face. He was the first person electrocuted in Virginia since 2003, when Earl Bramblett was executed for the murder of four members of the Hodges family in 1994.

Murder On May 10, 1997, Hedrick and Trevor Jones spent the evening drinking, smoking crack cocaine and marijuana, and employing the services of four prostitutes. After driving the last two prostitutes back to downtown Lynchburg, Virginia, Hedrick and Jones saw Lisa Yvonne Crider. Jones knew that Crider's boyfriend was a crack cocaine dealer, and the two decided to pick Crider up, have sex with her, and rob her of any crack in her possession. Crider voluntarily traveled with Hedrick and Jones back to Jones's apartment, where Jones paid Crider $50 to have sex with him. Afterward, Hedrick retrieved a shotgun from Jones's car at Jones's direction and robbed Crider of the $50 at gunpoint. Hedrick and Jones handcuffed Crider, duct-taped her eyes and mouth, and led her to Jones's truck. The three left the apartment around 1:00 a.m.

After driving for some time, Jones stopped the truck because Hedrick wanted to have sex with Crider. Hedrick raped Crider after telling her not to "try anything" because he had a gun. Afterward, the two men decided to kill Crider, fearing retaliation from her boyfriend. About one week later, the authorities arrested Hedrick and Jones in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 2002, a judge ordered a mental competency evaluation for Hedrick after he claimed he wanted to drop his appeals. Hedrick repeatedly changed his mind on the matter.

Hedrick's accomplice, Trevor Jones, was sentenced to life in prison.

On July 20, 2006, Hedrick was executed in the electric chair at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia. He was pronounced dead at 9:12 p.m. His last meal was pizza with cheese, sausage and hamburger, french fries with ketchup, bacon, chocolate cake, and apple pie. In his final statement, he said, "I pray for everybody that believes in Jesus Christ in heaven, and I pray for the people that are unsaved that they will accept Christ because they know not what they do and will accept Christ one day. I'm ready to go and be free."