Virginia's death row population has dwindled to eight from a peak of 57 in 1995, and it's not just because of the state's efficiency in carrying out capital punishment.

Half of Virginia’s death row inmates will have their cases argued before the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this month, but that should not tax the Richmond-based court — ...

Virginia has the fewest number of inmates on death row since July 1979, shortly after it resumed carrying out the penalty following a 1972 Supreme Court ruling that halted executions across the U ...

About Virginia's 11 death-row inmates . Frank Green Dec 4, 2011 Dec 4, ... who was on California's death row at San Quentin State Prison for the 1990 rape and murder of a teenage girl.

Virginia is second only to Texas as the state with the most executions, having carried out 98 executions since the death penalty's reinstatement in 1976 compared to Texas' 405. Sponsored Content ...

VIRGINIA — President Joe Biden has granted executive clemency to nearly all of the country’s death row inmates, a move affecting 37 individuals. Of those, at least four have ties to Virginia ...

Virginia's Death Row is the home of the commonwealth's worst criminals who await their fate either by electrocution or by lethal injection. Death Row is located at Sussex I State Prison in Waverly ...

There are currently two inmates on death row in Virginia as of December 2020, according to Virginia’s Department of Corrections. The Senate bill would change their sentences to life in prison.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Only a few months ago, the condemned men on Virginia’s death row left their tiny cells just three days a week for showers, and an hour ...

Half of Virginia’s death row inmates will have their cases argued before the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this month, ... Virginia’s death row population peaked in 1995 at 57 or 58 inmates.