[2] On May 10, 1997, Hedrick and Trevor Jones spent the evening drinking, smoking crack cocaine and marijuana, and employing the services of four prostitutes.
During the sentencing phase of his trial, a court-appointed clinical psychologist testified that Hedrick was significantly immature for his age and that he had a problem with drugs and alcohol that accelerated in the months leading up to the crimes.
The jury recommended that he be sentenced to death, finding that Hedrick posed a "continuing serious threat to society" and that his conduct in committing the offenses was "outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible or inhuman in that it involved torture, depravity of mind, aggravated battery to the victim beyond the minimum necessary to accomplish the act of murder."
[2][3] Under Virginia law since January 1, 1995, condemned prisoners have been able to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection as their execution method.
Hedrick's lawyers indicated that he chose the electric chair because he feared complications related to the drugs used in the lethal injection.
[9] He was pronounced dead at 9:12 p.m.[10] His last meal was pizza with cheese, sausage and hamburger, french fries with ketchup, bacon, chocolate cake, and apple pie.