Joseph M. Giarratano (born August 26, 1957) is a former prisoner who served in Deerfield Correctional Center, in Southampton County, Virginia. On November 21, 2017, he was granted parole. He was convicted based on circumstantial evidence and his own confessions, of murdering Toni Kline and raping and strangling her 15-year-old daughter Michelle on February 4, 1979, in Norfolk, Virginia. He has said that he was an addict for years and had blacked out on alcohol and drugs, waking to find the bodies. He was sentenced to death and incarcerated on death row for 12 years at the former Virginia State Penitentiary (which has been replaced).