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It’s hard to know exactly where the tragic story of the Sampognaro family begins. But according to court papers, it begins years before Joseph…
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Gov. Ralph Northam will be introducing a bill to abolish the death penalty that, if successful, would make Virginia the first Southern state to end capital punishment.
Gov. Ralph Northam addressed the public and the media during a recent COVID-19 briefing in Richmond.
Evans was executed October 17, 1990. Evans, 44, shot an Alexandria deputy sheriff to death in 1981 but was called a hero by some Mecklenburg C…
Dennis Wayne Stockton was executed Sept. 27, 1995, for a 1978 contract murder. Stockton was convicted of shooting Kenneth Arnder, 18, in the b…
Michael Marnell Smith shown in file photograph as he left the courthouse during his trial. Smith was executed July 31, 1986. Smith, a father o…
Convicted murderer Richard Lee Whitley lost his attempt for a stay of execution in two separate courts in Richmond. Whitley, convicted of murd…
Convicted murderer Earl Clanton Jr. was executed April 14, 1988. Clanton had been convicted March 13, 1981, for the Nov. 16, 1980, robbery and…
Alton Waye died in the state's electric chair for the 1977 rape and murder of a Lunenberg County woman, Laverne Marshall. Waye was executed Au…
Corrections officer Kay Newton hands tray containing Christmas dinner to death row inmate Buddy Earl Justus in 1986. Justus was sentenced to d…