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Pages in category "People convicted of murder by West Virginia" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... 2003 West Virginia sniper;
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of West Virginia from 1861 to 1959. Capital punishment was abolished in West Virginia in 1965. [ 1 ] From 1861 to 1959, 112 people have been executed in West Virginia, [ 2 ] 102 by hanging , 9 by electrocution and 1 by hanging in chains .
Pages in category "Murder in West Virginia" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. M.
Under Virginia's authority, 43 people were executed; there were 112 executions after West Virginia achieved statehood. The first two people executed in the State of West Virginia were Daniel Grogan and Thomas Boice, both convicted of murder and hanged in Wood County in 1866. [1] After West Virginia became a state, no women were executed there.
Christa Pike was born in 1976 to Carissa Hansen and Emil Glenn Pike in Beckley, West Virginia. Her parents had a tumultuous relationship, being married for two years, divorced for a year after Hansen was found to be cheating, and remarried for another two years after Hansen attempted suicide. [2]
Encyclopedia of World Biography, 17 volumes, Gale, 1997. ISBN 0-7876-2546-9. ISBN 978-0-7876-2546-7. Frank, Jane, Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Fredriksen, John, Biographical Dictionary of Modern World Leaders. Freeland, David, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since ...
An Appalachian New Deal: West Virginia in the Great Depression (West Virginia University Press, 1998) 316 pp. ISBN 978-1-933202-51-8; Trotter Jr., Joe William. Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915–32 (1990) William, John Alexander. West Virginia and the Captains of Industry (1976), economic history of late 19th century.
Elva Zona Heaster Shue, murder victim. The Greenbrier Ghost is the name popularly given to the ghost of Elva Zona Heaster Shue, a young woman in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States, who was murdered in 1897. Initially judged a death by natural causes, the court later declared that the woman had been murdered by her husband ...