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Robert Charles GLEASON Jr.

Robert Gleason Jr.

In this Tuesday Jan. 25. 2012 file photo, Robert Gleason Jr. is escorted into a Wise County
courtroom in Wise, Va. (AP/Bristol Herald Courier, David Crigger)

The electric chair at Greensville Correctional Center used to execute Robert Gleason Jr.

While awaiting sentencing at a highly secure prison for the state's most dangerous inmates,
Gleason strangled 26-year-old Aaron Cooper through wire fencing that separated their
individual cages in a recreation yard in July 2010.

As officers tried to resuscitate Cooper - video surveillance shows he had been choked
on and off for nearly an hour - Gleason told them "you're going to have to
pump a lot harder than that."