Virginia’s use of the death penalty dates back over 400 years—to 1608, when Jamestown settlers carried out the first recorded execution in the then-European colonies. In the centuries since ...

Death penalty politics reached a significant political flashpoint in Virginia’s 2005 gubernatorial race between Democrat Tim Kaine, the lieutenant governor at the time and now a U.S. senator ...

Virginia abolished the death penalty in 2021. It’s one of 23 states, along with D.C., that prohibit state-sanctioned killings. Biden previously supported the death penalty.

The high-profile assassination of a top Minnesota lawmaker and her husband could bring about a form of punishment outlawed in the state for more than 100 years.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent ... put to death is also markedly different across the country. Texas has put 573 people to death since 1976, according to the ...