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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]
Pages in category "Executed people from Virginia" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Pages in category "20th-century executions by Virginia" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 ...
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 ...
People executed by Virginia by lethal injection (8 P) Pages in category "People executed by Virginia" This category contains only the following page.
Police in Virginia say the discovery of four bodies at two different locations in the state are the work of a serial killer who used a shopping cart to transport his victims' bodies after meeting ...