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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]
Teresa Wilson Bean Lewis (April 26, 1969 – September 23, 2010) was an American murderer who was the only woman on death row in Virginia prior to her execution. [2] She was sentenced to death by lethal injection for the murders of her husband and stepson in October 2002.
Since then, Virginia has executed more than 1,300 people, the most of any other state. [3] In the modern, post-Gregg era, Virginia conducted 113 executions, the third most in the country, behind only Texas and Oklahoma. [4] The last execution in the state was on July 6, 2017, when William Morva was executed via lethal injection for murder. [5]
Frank J. Coppola (1982) first post-Gregg execution in Virginia; James Corbitt (1950) Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen (1910) Ba Cụt (1956) Gary Lee Davis (1997) first post-Gregg execution in Colorado and last execution in Colorado; David Thomas Dawson (2006) most recent execution in Montana; John Dickman (1910) Hamida Djandoubi (1977) last execution ...
In March and June 2010, Leavell-Keaton murdered her common-law husband's children, three-year-old Chase DeBlase and four-year-old Natalie DeBlase. Prosecutors allege that she put antifreeze in the children's food and choked them both to death. 9 years, 4 months and 8 days Leavell-Keaton's husband John DeBlase was also sentenced to death.
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The husband of Mamta Kafle Bhatt, a 28-year-old Virginia mother who has been missing for over three weeks, is accused of killing her inside their home and dragging her body outside, court ...
Several weeks before his execution, James Briley married a writer who believed his claims of innocence, Evangeline Grant Redding, on March 28, 1985, in a prison ceremony attended by his father, James Sr. [13] [14] The brothers were executed in the electric chair at the Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond; Linwood on October 12, 1984, and J ...