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The first confirmed juvenile to be executed in the United States was Thomas Granger, executed for buggery involving several animals, including "a mare, a cow, two goats, divers sheep, two calves, and a turkey." The execution took place on September 8, when Granger was 16 or 17 years old; prior to the execution, the animals involved in Granger's ...
5 people, including a juvenile, killed in Virginia plane crash, officials say Michelle Watson, Sarah Dewberry, Yan Kaner and Chris Boyette, CNN March 11, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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]
The COVID-19 pandemic in Virginia is part of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The first confirmed case was reported on March 7, 2020, in Fort Belvoir , [ 5 ] and the first suspected case arrived in Virginia on February 23, 2020, which was a man who had recently traveled to Egypt .
State health officials say they’ve fixed a new data tool tracking child coronavirus cases that had significantly underreported hospitalizations, making the new count 1.5 times higher. The ...
As the federal Bureau of Prisons readied for a Monday execution, a staffer involved in preparing to administer the death sentence has tested positive for coronavirus. The information came out in ...
The case of the Martinsville Seven led to scrutiny of racial bias in death penalties for rape in Virginia. Only Black men were executed for rape, de jure through the end of the Civil War, and de facto since the introduction of the electric chair. [8] The last execution for rape took place on February 17, 1961. The youngest person to have been ...
He was executed by lethal injection on December 6, 1985. Mary Cooper 9 years 1885 United States: Scottsville, Virginia: 1 0 Cooper hung and beat her seven-year-old cousin Melville Barrett. [17] Unnamed boy 9 years May 6, 2019 United States: Fawn River Township, Michigan: 1 0 He shot his 51-year-old adoptive mother. [18] Cayetano Santos Godino