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July 6 VIRGINIAexecution William Morva executed by injection for murders in Southwest Virginia William C. Morva was executed by injection Thursday night for the capital murders of an unarmed security guard and a deputy sheriff during an escape in Montgomery County in 2006. Morva,

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July 6 VIRGINIA: Va. governor declines to halt execution of killer whose mental illness spurred clemency bid William C. Morva is scheduled to be executed Thursday night in Virginia, after supporters failed to convince Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) that Morva’s mental illness merited cle

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June 13 VIRGINIAimpending execution Urgent Action DELUSIONAL DISORDER DIAGNOSED, EXECUTION SET William Morva, a 35-year-old US-Hungarian national, is due to be executed in Virginia on 6 July. A psychiatrist has diagnosed him with delusional disorder, and concluded that this contr

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April 20 VIRGINIA: Governor commutes death sentence of Virginia inmate Ivan Teleguz Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe called a 3:30 p.m. press conference to make a public statement “regarding his review of Ivan Teleguz’s petitions for a pardon and for commutation of his death sentence.

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Oct. 1 VIRGINIAexecution Prieto executed after rush of late appeals Alfredo Prieto, convicted of 2 1988 Fairfax County murders after a DNA hit found him on California's death row, was executed by injection Thursday night at Greensville Correctional Center. Prieto was pronounced

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Oct. 1 VIRGINIAimpending execution Federal judge clears way for Virginia execution A federal judge has cleared the way for Virginia to execute a convicted serial killer on Thursday night, saying an unwarranted delay would be harmful for those victimized. U.S. District Court Judge

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Aug. 16 VIRGINIA: U.S. COURT OF APPEALS VACATES CONVICTION AND DEATH SENTENCE OF JUSTIN WOLFE Virginia Inmate Vindicated After Finding of Prosecutorial Misconduct On August 16, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling that vacated Justin Wolfe's c

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Feb. 16 VIRGINIAimpending execution State set to execute Bell in 3 days Edward Nathaniel Bell on Thursday is scheduled to become the 103rd person executed in Virginia since the reinstitution of the death penalty in 1976. Sentenced to die in 2001 for the Oct. 29, 1999, fatal shooting

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July 24 VIRGINIAexecution Emmett executed for 2001 murder Christopher Scott Emmett was put to death tonight for the 2001 beating death of a co-worker in Danville. Emmett, who this afternoon dropped his appeals over the legality of lethal injections for executions, was pronounced dead a

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July 10 VIRGINIA-execution Jackson executed for 2000 murder Kent Jermaine Jackson was put to death tonight for the murder of an elderly Newport News neighbor 8 years ago. Jackson, 26, was executed by injection and was pronounced dead at 9:18 p.m. He was convicted of capital murder fo

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May 29 VIRGINIAnew execution date Execution set for man who killed co-worker A July 24 execution date has been set for a death row inmate who is challenging the state's lethal injection method. The Attorney General's Office says Danville Circuit Court set the execution date for Chri

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May 27 VIRGINIAexecution Virginia executes killer A man whose lawyers claimed he was mentally disabled was executed Tuesday night for killing a convenience store owner in the 1st execution in Virginia in nearly 2 years. Kevin Green, 31, was pronounced dead at 10:05 at Greensville Corr

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May 27 VIRGINIA: Kaine won't halt killer's execution Gov. Timothy M. Kaine says he will not intervene to halt tonight's scheduled execution of Kevin Green, who is scheduled to die at 9 p.m. for the 1998 capital murder of Patricia L. Vaughan in Brunswick County. "The trial, verdict and sen

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May 24 VIRGINIAimpending execution Virginia set to execute killer Tuesday A man scheduled to be executed Tuesday for killing a Brunswick County convenience-store owner would be the 1st person put to death in Virginia since Gov. Timothy M. Kaine lifted a brief moratorium on executions i

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May 20 VIRGINIA: Death row prisoner appeals to top court Attorneys for a man scheduled to be executed next week for killing a Brunswick County convenience store owner during a 1998 robbery asked the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday to review the case. Attorneys for Kevin Green, 31, say the

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April 3 VIRGINIA: A necessary halt in state executions GOV. TIM KAINE'S decision to stop executions until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of lethal injection was a prudent move, not a political one. The court has not allowed any inmate to be executed since Septemb

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Oct. 18 VIRGINIA: Supreme Court Halts Va. Inmate's ExecutionRuling Could Lead To National Hiatus In Lethal Injections The Supreme Court stopped the execution of Virginia death row inmate Christopher Scott Emmett yesterday, a move that legal experts said might signal a nationwide halt

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news-----VIRGINIA----VADP Execution Alert

P.O. Box 4804, Charlottesville, VA 22905 (888) 567-VADP (434) 960-4673 www.vadp.org jack at vadp.org Execution Alert May 3, 2007 Christopher Scott Emmett Scheduled for Execution at 9:00 pm on June 13, 2007 Action Requested: Contact

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----VIRGINIA----Vote in online poll to uphold Gov. Kaine's vetoes of death penalty expansion bills

Dear Friends, There is a poll in today's Sautnton News Leader Newspaper's online edition asking for opinions on Governor Tim Kanie's vetoes of the death penalty bills. If you have a minute it would be good to help us sutain the vetoes of the General Assembly's attempt to expand the death penalty

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Feb. 11 VIRGINIA: Federal Judge Grants Powell Stay of Execution In '99 Manassas Killing Paul Warner Powell, whose boastful letter detailing how he killed a Manassas teenager led to his 2nd capital murder conviction, will not be executed in 4 days. A federal judge has granted a stay of e

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Dec. 4 VIRGINIAstay of execution Va. Death Row Inmate's Execution Delayed Gov. Timothy M. Kaine on Monday postponed the execution of a man convicted of killing 3 neighbors to allow more time to review claims the condemned inmate is mentally retarded and insane. Percy Walton, 28, had

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July 20 VIRGINIAexecution Va. killer electrocuted for rape, slaying of young mother A man who raped and murdered a young mother was electrocuted Thursday, becoming the 1st person in the United States to die in the electric chair in more than 2 years. Brandon Hedrick, 27, was pronounce

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June 25 VIRGINIA: Prisoners on death row Of the 22 inmates on Virginia's death row, 4 received their death sentences in Prince William County. Virginia's death row is located at Sussex I State Prison in Waverly. Larry "Bill" Elliott, 56, of Hanover, Md. Elliott was convicted of the Janua

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June 8 VIRGINIAstay of execution liftedimpending execution Inmate's Execution Still Set for TonightStay Voided for Man Experts Say Is Retarded Virginia death-row inmate Percy Levar Walton has said he knows exactly what will happen if the state executes him tonight for killing 3

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June 7 VIRGINIAimpending execution (temporarily) stayed) Court stays execution for inmate who claims he's insane A federal judge granted a temporary stay of execution Wednesday for a triple killer set to die Thursday. The court granted the delay based on Percy Walton's challenge that

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April 20 VIRGINIAnew execution date Execution date set for man who killed 3 neighbors An execution date has been set a man convicted of killing 3 neighbors in Danville in 1996. Danville Circuit Court today scheduled Percy Walton's execution for June 8th. The 27-year-old was convicted

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March 30 VIRGINIA: Lawyer, Death Row Chaplain Calls Death Penalty 'Disaster' "The American death penalty is a disaster." Florida lawyer and death row lay chaplain Dale S. Recinella asserted this thesis in his keynote speech Saturday at the symposium "Catholic Teaching and the Realities of

[Deathpenalty]death penalty news----VIRGINIA----action alert

Jack Payden-Travers, Director Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty P.O. Box 4804 Charlottesville, VA 22905 888-567-VADP (office) 434-960-4673 (Jack) www.vadp.org j...@vadp.org Action Alert Execution Date Set for Dexter Lee Vinson The Portsmouth Circuit Court has set

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Jan. 8 VIRGINIA: VERDICT MAY BRING CHANGES Gov. Mark Warner took a risky step Thursday when he gave the green light to retest DNA evidence from a crime committed almost 25 years ago. Failure to order the retesting, however, would have been even more risky, especially for those who may find

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Nov. 17 URGENT ACTION APPEAL 17 November 2005 (originally issued 4 Nov) UA 285/05 Death Penalty USA (Virginia): Robin Lovitt (m) Robin Lovitt is scheduled to be executed in Virginia on 30 November. He was sentenced to death in 1999 for the murder of Clayton Dicks the previous year.

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URGENT ACTION APPEAL -- 4 November 2005 UA 285/05 Death Penalty USA (Virginia): Robin Lovitt (m) Robin Lovitt is scheduled to be executed in Virginia on 30 November. He was sentenced to death in 1999 for the murder of Clayton Dicks the previous year.

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Oct. 20 VIRGINIA: Catholic belief: Execution wrong -- Catholic officials say the church opposes capital punishment The emergence of the death penalty as a central issue in the Virginia governor's race raises the question of how the Catholic faith of candidate Tim Kaine might affect his p

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Sept. 17 VIRGINIA: Va. DNA Review Finds No Pattern of ProblemsPanel Urges Lab to Clarify Policies A long-awaited review of DNA analysis of 123 Virginia criminal cases found no pattern of procedural problems at the state's forensic laboratory, the governor's office announced Friday. A

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August 25 VIRGINIA: Atkins' lawyers to file appealThe case, already unprecedented in Virginia, may hold lessons for the legal profession in future trials. Defense attorneys who failed to convince a jury that death row defendant Daryl Atkins was mentally retarded are planning to appeal

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July 23 VIRGINIA: A Question of Culpability At 18, Daryl Atkins had racked up a childhood of failures. He flunked out of second grade, barely made it through 4th, and took home a heavy load of D's and F's on his report cards. By high school, a teacher decided to put the books aside to fo

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July 8 VIRGINIAimpending execution Convicted scissor killer faces execution Barring intervention from the Supreme Court or Gov. Mark R. Warner, a man convicted of fatally stabbing the night manager of a pool hall with a pair of scissors will be executed Monday. Robin Lovitt's executi

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July 11 VIRGINIAstay of impending execution Execution stayed for Virginia death row inmate The U.S. Supreme Court granted a last-minute stay of execution Monday for a man convicted of fatally stabbing the manager of a pool hall with a pair of scissors. Robin Lovitt, 41, had been sched

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Feb. 16 VIRGINIA: Jurors set to debate man's fateConvicted of stalking, Simmons faces death penalty in slaying of JMU students A federal jury is to deliberate today whether to impose the death penalty or sentence to life in prison a stalker convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and

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FEBRUARY 6, 2005: VIRGINIA: Inmate's Rising I.Q. Score Could Mean His Death 3 years ago, in the case of a Virginia man named Daryl R. Atkins, the United States Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to execute the mentally retarded. But Mr. Atkins's recent test scores could el

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death penalty news December 30, 2004 VIRGINIA: Death Penalty A Key Strategy For Kilgore - Rival Kaine's Opposition Stressed in Bid for Governor Lem Tuggle and Richard Lee Whitley are long dead, executed by Virginia years ago. But Attorney General Jerry W. Kilgore, the likely Republican nom

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Dec. 16 VIRGINIA: N.Va. Gang Members IndictedRacketeering Charges Filed Against Suspects 2 members of the violent street gang Mara Salvatrucha were indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury on racketeering charges that included the slaying of a Herndon teenager, drawing federal autho

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Oct. 13 VIRGINIA: Court denies rehearing in Moussaoui case Terrorism suspect Zacarias Moussaoui lost a bid Wednesday to have the full 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals review 2 issues -- witness access and the death penalty -- that have delayed a trial. Moussaoui lawyers, Frank Dunham Jr

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Sept. 9 VIRGINIAexecution Virginia Executes Man for Killing Elderly Woman An alcoholic, brain-damaged man who stabbed an elderly woman to death with a pair of scissors in 1996 was executed in Virginia on Thursday night. James Edward Reid, 58, was executed by injection at the Greensv

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July 24 VIRGINIA: Attorneys want prosecutor barred from sniper trialDefense: Presenting 2 theories for one murder 'unseemly' Attorneys for convicted Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad want the Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney's office barred from prosecuting their client's s

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----VIRGINIA----VADP Activist Alert - Sign the Online Petition for Coleman

Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty PO Box 4804 * Charlottesville, VA 22905 434- 960-7779 * 888- 567-VADP *434-960-4673 [Director] * 434-984-2803 [Fax] http://www.vadp.org/ VADP Activist Alert June 18, 2004 Sign the On-Line Petition for Coleman Roger Keith Coleman wa