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  2. Capital punishment in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Capital punishment was abolished in Virginia on March 24, 2021, when Governor Ralph Northam signed a bill into law. The law took effect on July 1, 2021. Virginia is the 23rd state to abolish the death penalty, and the first southern state in United States history to do so.

  3. List of people executed in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    7 Earl Clanton Jr. Black 33 M April 14, 1988 Petersburg: Wilhemina Smith 8 Alton Waye: Black 34 M August 30, 1989 Lunenburg: Laverne Marshall 9 Richard Thomas Boggs: White 27 M July 19, 1990 Portsmouth: Treeby Shaw Douglas Wilder: 10 Wilbert Lee Evans: Black 44 M October 17, 1990 Alexandria City: Sheriff Deputy William Truesdale 11 Buddy Earl ...

  4. List of rivers of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Mine Run; Robinson River. Rose River; South River; Conway River; Staunton River; Mountain Run; ... ISBN 0-88490-177-7 This page was last edited on 8 November 2024, at ...

  5. Gold mining in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Other mines did, however, and gold production in Virginia continued until World War II, when, on October 8, 1942, the War Production Board issued Limitation Order L-208, which branded gold production as a non-essential and directed all but the smallest of gold mines to shut down so their labor force could be used elsewhere to support the war ...

  6. Martinsville Seven - Wikipedia

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    In December 2020, the Martinsville 7 Project asked Virginia Governor Ralph Northam to pardon the Martinsville Seven posthumously and issue an apology. The Martinsville 7 Project, according to their website, seeks to highlight the case, share their stories, collect and post records related to the case, and promote the pardon request. [8] [17]

  7. List of methods of capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    The methodical removal of portions of the body over an extended period of time, usually with a knife, eventually resulting in death. Sometimes known as "death by a thousand cuts". Pendulum. [8] A machine with an axe head for a weight that slices closer to the victim's torso over time (of disputed historicity). Starvation/Dehydration ...

  8. Capital punishment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Vermont has abolished the death penalty for all crimes, but has an invalid death penalty statue for treason. [83] When it abolished the death penalty in 2019, New Hampshire explicitly did not commute the death sentence of the sole person remaining on the state's death row, Michael K. Addison. [84] [85]

  9. Mecklenburg Correctional Center - Wikipedia

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    Stockton was also on death row for murder and originally planned to escape with them, but backed out because he anticipated his case would be overturned on appeal. During the escape, he wrote down everything that happened minute by minute in his diaries, which were later published in a Norfolk, Virginia newspaper, the Virginian Pilot .