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Murdered 20-year-old Navy Petty Officer Amanda Jean Snell in Virginia. 10 years, 128 days. Northern Neck Regional Jail. 16054-084. Avila-Torrez was later linked to the rapes and murders of eight-year-old Laura Hobbs and nine-year-old Krystal Tobias in his hometown of Zion, Illinois. Robert Gregory Bowers.
Veronica Gonzales. Along with her husband Ivan, Gonzales was convicted of the 1995 scalding death of her 4-year-old niece, Genevieve Rojas. She was convicted of first-degree murder with special circumstances of torture and mayhem. They are the first married couple in California on death row for the same crime.
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. Lewis sought to profit from a $250,000 life insurance policy her stepson ...
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]
A woman died after falling roughly 100 feet inside a cave in Virginia on Friday, officials said. The Giles County Sheriff's Office received a 911 call that a woman had fallen "approximately 100 ...
Henrietta Lacks was born Loretta Pleasant on August 1, 1920, [1] [8] in Roanoke, Virginia, to Eliza Pleasant (née Lacks) (1886–1924) and John "Johnny" Randall Pleasant (1881–1969). [9] She is remembered as having hazel eyes, a small waist, size 6 shoes, and always wearing red nail polish and a neatly pleated skirt. [ 10 ]
October 2, 2024 at 3:03 PM. Archaeologists have discovered surprising new details about the oldest tombstone in the United States, which dates back nearly 400 years. The 1627 tombstone was set up ...
Summary of scheduled executions. As of October 4, 2024, a total of 34 people are scheduled to be executed in the United States. [1] All of these executions are scheduled over four calendar years in seven U.S. states. [2] There are a total of 14 pending motions to set an execution date across six states. [3]