A man who nearly decapitated a Mecklenburg County store owner during a robbery is set to become the 100th person executed in Virginia since capital punishment was reinstated three decades ago.

Robert Stacy Yarbrough is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 9 p.m. Wednesday at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt. The 30-year-old was sentenced to death for the 1997 slaying of 77-year-old Cyril Hugh Hamby.

Yarbrough has asked the U.S. Supreme Court and Governor Timothy Kaine to block the execution.

Virginia ranks second to Texas, with 406, in the number of executions since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976.