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  2. Capital punishment in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. List of people executed in Virginia - Wikipedia

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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]

  4. Category : People executed by Virginia by firing squad

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  5. Video shows Virginia deputies and medical staff piling on ...

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    Video capturing some of the final moments in the life of Irvo Otieno — whose death led to murder charges against seven Virginia sheriff's deputies and three hospital workers — shows several ...

  6. Robert Gleason (murderer) - Wikipedia

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    Gleason was executed by electric chair at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia, on January 16, 2013, at 9:08 p.m. He was the first person executed in the United States in 2013. He had a last meal that he wanted kept secret. His last words were purportedly, "Well, I hope Percy ain't going to forget to wet the sponge. Put me on ...

  7. Virginia serial killer executed by lethal injection: reports

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    Convicted Virginia serial killer Alfredo Prieto was executed by lethal injection on Thursday night, the Washington Post and ABC News reported. Prieto, 49, was pronounced dead at 9:17 p.m. EDT at ...

  8. List of most recent executions by jurisdiction - Wikipedia

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    Virginia: 6 July 2017 [108] William Charles Morva: aggravated murder: lethal injection: A Washington: 10 September 2010 [109] Cal Coburn Brown: aggravated murder: lethal injection: A Washington, D.C. 26 April 1957 [110] Robert E. Carter: murder: electric chair: A West Virginia: 3 April 1959: Elmer Bruner: aggravated murder: electric chair: A ...

  9. EDITORIAL: W.Va. killed the death penalty 60 years ago ... - AOL

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    West Virginia abolished capital punishment in 1965, but the last execution was in 1959. According to the West Virginia Encyclopedia, 94 men were put to death between 1899 and 1959—in the early ...