Andrew Chabrol was executed by the State of Virginia for the murder of Melissa Herrington
According to court documents Andrew Chabrol was an officer in the US Navy who was kicked out after Melissa Herrington filed a sexual harassment claim against him. Chabrol would retaliate by kidnapping the woman who was sexually assaulted and murdered
Andrew Chabrol would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Andrew Chabrol was executed by way of the electric chair on June 17 1993
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Andrew Chabrol Case
A former Navy lieutenant was executed Thursday night for abducting, raping and strangling an enlisted woman who had complained about his advances.
The former officer, Andrew J. Chabrol, 36, was put to death in the electric chair at the Greensville Correctional Center after refusing to fight the death sentence handed out a year ago. As a result, he had the shortest wait of any of the 20 Virginia inmates executed since the Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976.
Mr. Chabrol pleaded guilty to the 1991 murder of Melissa Harrington, with whom Mr. Chabrol had tried to develop a romantic relationship when she was in his command. But Mrs. Harrington rejected his advances and complained to his superior.
Mr. Chabrol said her complaint damaged his career and ruined his marriage. He left the Navy in 1991 and began planning revenge, keeping a computer journal in which he referred to Mrs. Harrington as “Nemesis.”
He and another man abducted her from her Virginia Beach home while her husband was out of town and took her to Mr. Chabrol’s home in Chesapeake. His accomplice, Stanley J. Berkeley, was sentenced to three life terms for murder, rape and abduction.
Mrs. Harrington was strapped to a bed and raped. When she fought back, her head was tightly wrapped in duct tape and she was strangled with a rope.
“I just went berserk,” Mr. Chabrol testified.
