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The Daniel Dean Trial of Scott County, Virginia was a trial that took place in the town of Estiville, Virginia in July 1877. What makes this trial unique is that it was the first time that an individual was convicted of murder in the state of Virginia based solely on circumstantial evidence.
This is a list of people executed in Virginia after 1976. The Supreme Court decision in Gregg v. Georgia, issued in 1976, allowed for the reinstitution of the death penalty in the United States. Capital punishment in Virginia was abolished by the Virginia General Assembly in 2021. [1] [2]
She refused to try Wagner, because in Arkansas, murder in cold blood was a capital offense, and she fell in love with him [citation needed]. Mississippi, Tennessee, and Arkansas wanted him for murder. Since his first killing was in Mississippi, he was tried there and in 1926 was sentenced to life to be served at Parchman Farm. His first escape ...
A man who murdered a 17-year-old girl and refused to tell her family where her body is has died in prison where he was serving a life sentence.
SCOTT COUNTY, Va. (WJHL) — The Virginia State Police (VSP) has identified the pilot killed in a plane crash in Scott County Wednesday. On Thursday, state police reported Bradley Nelms, 45, of ...
A husband has been indicted for murder, 19 months after police found his wife stabbed to death and another man shot dead inside the couple’s suburban home in Herndon, Virginia. Fairfax County ...
Randall Lee Smith (June 29, 1953 – May 10, 2008) [1] was an American convicted murderer from Pearisburg, Virginia. [2] He pleaded guilty shortly before trial commenced to two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of hikers Robert Mountford Jr. and Laura Susan Ramsay, both 27-year-old social workers from Maine who were murdered by Smith while hiking the Appalachian Trail in May 1981.
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