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 ...

Virginia abolishes the death penalty, becoming the first Southern state to ban its use. March 24, 2021. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D), left, and Larry Edmonds, right, warden of the Greensville ...

Colorado, for example, abolished the death penalty in March 2020, but according to DPIC, it had executed just one person since 1975. “Virginia was a leading death penalty state,” Garrett told CNN.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, signed a ban on the death penalty in that state Wednesday, joining 22 other states.

A death penalty opponent demonstrates outside the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., on Jan. 15. (Bryan Woolston/Reuters) Virginia may be about to eliminate the death penalty, which would ...

Virginia became the 23rd state to abolish the death penalty Wednesday after Governor Ralph Northam signed legislation that would end the use of capital punishment in the commonwealth.

After more than 400 years and nearly 1,400 lives, the death penalty is dead in Virginia.Gov. Ralph Northam signed legislation Wednesday abolishing it in a state that has executed more people than ...

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 ...

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 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.