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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]
Capital punishment was abolished in Virginia on March 24, 2021, when Governor Ralph Northam signed a bill into law. The law took effect on July 1, 2021. Virginia is the 23rd state to abolish the death penalty, and the first southern state in United States history to do so. [1] [2]
Virginia: 6 July 2017 [108] William Charles Morva: aggravated murder: lethal injection: A Washington: 10 September 2010 [109] Cal Coburn Brown: aggravated murder: lethal injection: A Washington, D.C. 26 April 1957 [110] Robert E. Carter: murder: electric chair: A West Virginia: 3 April 1959: Elmer Bruner: aggravated murder: electric chair: A ...
Name Description of crime Time on death row Other; Virginia Susan Caudill Caudill was convicted of the 1998 death of a 73-year-old woman. Prosecutors allege that Caudill and an accomplice entered the home of Lonetta White, beat her to death and then burglarized her home.
Capital punishment in Virginia: The death penalty in Virginia came to an end on March 24, 2021, when the state became the first Southern state to abolish the death penalty. Prior to abolition, Virginia had some of the most executions out of any state since 1976, as well as the most executions overall in the pre-Furman v. Georgia era. [205]
A Provisional Irish Republican Army member was sentenced to death for murder before abolition was extended across the UK. European Union human-rights protocols signed in 1999 abolished the death penalty in EU nations, but the UK is no longer an EU member. [18] 1998 Mahmood Hussein Mattan, convicted and hanged 1952, conviction quashed 1998. [19]
Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref. At execution At offense Age difference; 1 January 30, 2019 Robert Mitchell Jennings: 61 30 31 Male Black Texas: Lethal injection [2] [3] 2 February 7, 2019 Dominique Hakim Marcelle Ray: 42 19 23 Alabama [4] [5] 3 February 28, 2019 Billie Wayne Coble: 70 40 30 White Texas [6] 4 April 24, 2019 ...
Thomas Hartley Montgomery (1873) only Irish policeman sentenced to death for murder; Carey Dean Moore (2018) most recent execution in Nebraska; Harry Charles Moore (1997) most recent execution in Oregon; Patrick Moran (1921) William Morva (2017) last execution in Virginia; Leon Moser (1995) Norishyam s/o Mohamed Ali (1999) Shukri Mustafa (1978 ...