Dexter Lee Vinson

Who was Dexter Lee Vinson?

Dexter Lee Vinson was an inmate at the Greensville Correctional Facility in Jarratt, Virginia who was executed by lethal injection on April 27, 2006. Vinson, 34 years old at the time, was found guilty of the 1997 murder of Angela Felton, age 25, and was sentenced to death on February 11, 1999.

On May 19, 1997, Felton and her three children resided with Nethie Pierce and her children in Portsmouth, Virginia. The family previously had lived with Vinson in Portsmouth for "about a year and a half," after which the unmarried couple lived apart for about three weeks. At approximately 9:00 a.m. local time on May 19, Felton borrowed Pierce's 1988 Chevrolet Beretta to take her children to school. In a hurry to get the kids to school, Felton wore only a shift-type robe and underwear. Pierce's 14-year-old daughter, Willisa Joyner, rode with Felton.

At about 6:30 a.m. on the same day, Faye Wilson was completing a weekend stay with Vinson in a Suffolk motel. Wilson owned a 1988 blue Mercury Tracer automobile that she let Vinson use that morning. After Felton delivered her children to school, she drove with Joyner to the home she had shared with Vinson in order to get the mail.