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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. Instructions per second - Wikipedia

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    For this reason, MIPS has become not a measure of instruction execution speed, but task performance speed compared to a reference. In the late 1970s, minicomputer performance was compared using VAX MIPS , where computers were measured on a task and their performance rated against the VAX-11/780 that was marketed as a 1 MIPS machine.

  5. 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. ... a 2014 Department of Justice report noted that the average time between sentencing and execution was 15. ...

  6. Capital punishment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Virginia, decided on June 20, 2002, [53] held that the execution of intellectually disabled inmates is unconstitutional. Second, in 2005, the court's decision in Roper v. Simmons [ 54 ] struck down executions for offenders under the age of 18 at the time of the crime .

  7. Talk:Instructions per second - Wikipedia

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    That would, of course, not be an useful method for comparing processor speeds. But that is not MIPS. MIPS is the average execution time of insturctions in real world applications.-- PauliKL 13:34, 14 March 2008 (UTC) Unfortunately this is not true. MIPS is highly dependent on the application that is used to calculate it.

  8. Foley execution video going viral is exactly what ISIS wants

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    The Sunni extremist group ISIS has released a video claiming to show the beheading of American journalist James Foley. The video, which we have chosen not to show, went viral Tuesday. Both YouTube ...

  9. Wilbert Lee Evans - Wikipedia

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    [1] [3] Virginia's prison chaplain Russ Ford, who witnessed Evans's execution, stated that he believed Evans's execution amounted to torture. [16] Ford wrote in a recollection of Evans's execution that witnesses were audibly and visibly disturbed by the blood streaming down Evans's chin, onto his shirt, and onto the floor where it pooled.