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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]
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]
People executed by Virginia by electric chair (20 P) H. People executed by Virginia by hanging (15 P) L. People executed by Virginia by lethal injection (8 P)
Wilbert Evans was executed on October 17, 1990. Before he was led to the electric chair, he pocketed a copy of a plea on his behalf written by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, in which Marshall called Evans's imminent execution "dead wrong" and said Evans's execution proved that the Supreme Court could not guarantee "that given ...
The governor signed legislation Wednesday making Virginia the 23rd state to abolish the death penalty, a dramatic shift for the commonwealth, which had the second-highest number of executions in ...
Coppola was the first person to be executed in Virginia in over twenty years, since March 2, 1962. [16] Since the reinstatement of capital punishment in 1976, Coppola was the first person to be executed in Virginia, and the fifth in the United States, after Gary Gilmore, John Spenkelink, Jesse Bishop, and Steven Timothy Judy. [17]
Prison officials are unconstitutionally limiting public access to executions in Virginia by blocking witnesses from seeing certain steps in the process, four news organizations allege in a federal ...
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