Douglas Buchanan was executed by the State of Virginia for four murders
According to court documents Douglas Buchanan would go to his family home and would fatally shoot his father Douglas M. Buchanan, Sr, and then would fatally shoot his two stepbrothers: Donald, 10 and Joel Jerry, 13. Buchanan would then murder his stepmother Geraldine Patterson Buchanan
Douglas Buchanan would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Douglas Buchanan would be executed by lethal injection on March 18 1998
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Douglas Buchanan Case
A man convicted of killing his father and three members of his stepfamily after becoming enraged by a remark about his late mother was executed by injection after saying: “I’m ready to go.”
Douglas Buchanan Jr., 29, said “get the ride started” just before his death Wednesday night.Authorities said Buchanan showed up at the family home with a rifle in September 1987 and an argument erupted over a remark his father made about Buchanan’s mother. The elder Buchanan was shot to death.
His son then waited and fatally shot stepbrothers Donnie, 10, and Joel, 13, when they arrived home from school. He killed stepmother Geraldine Buchanan with a gun and knife
https://www.deseret.com/1998/3/19/19369777/virginia-executes-man-who-killed-father-stepfamily