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May 11, 2023 · In Virginia, it was someone's job to take Polaroid pictures of condemned prisoners before they were led away to be executed. The photos left behind reveal a range of emotions.
May 11, 2023 · The shots appear to have been taken in the same spot. Identical white curtains draped behind the prisoners as they posed, years apart. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the time frame in which the photographed men were executed, Virginia put people to death shortly before midnight.
Between 1982 and 2017, a total of 113 people were executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia. All were convicted of capital murder; all but one were male. Between 1982 and 1990, all executions were carried out at the Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond.
No.NameRaceAge113White35112Black39111Hispanic49110White42Virginia is the first Southern state to abolish capital punishment. On March 24, 2021, Governor Ralph Northam signed legislation to end the death penalty in Virginia and reduce the sentences of the commonwealth’s two death-row prisoners to life without parole.
Jan 19, 2023 · An NPR investigation can now reveal the tapes show the prison neglected to record key evidence during what was considered one of Virginia's worst executions, and staff appeared unprepared for...
Mar 7, 2023 · Several death penalty experts said the four recordings in Virginia and another 23 Georgia execution tapes released two decades ago are believed to be the only publicly available recordings of...
The Next to Die Watching death row. people were executed in from 1976 through 2020. For five and a half years, The Next to Die tracked every execution scheduled in the country, starting in 2015. This is what we learned.
