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FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Correctional officers stand at the entrance to the Greensville Correctional Center Nov. 10, 2009 near Jarratt, Virginia. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/TNS) Since 1608, Virginia has executed more people than any other state. It may now abolish the death penalty. But after more than 400 years, the state’s days of capital punishment may be numbered. Though Virginia has executed more people than any other state since Colonial times, it’s been nearly four years since its last execution and 10 years since juries handed down the state’s last two death sentences. There are only two inmates on Virginia’s death row both stemming from Norfolk cases down from a peak of 40 in 1998. ....
The first recorded public execution in Virginia took place at Jamestown in 1608, but legislation to end capital punishment recently passed two key Senate committees and stands a good chance at ultimate passage. ....
Man gets new hearing 11 years after conviction in murder-for-hire of Navy officer The Associated Press (rclassenlayouts/Getty Images) NORFOLK, Va. A Virginia man who was convicted in the murder-for-hire of a Navy officer in Newport News has gotten a new court hearing. The Daily Press reported Sunday that the hearing for David A. Runyon will focus on whether his trial lawyers should have better investigated evidence that he was suffering from brain damage. A Norfolk federal jury convicted Runyon in 2009 of shooting Cory Allen Voss five times outside an ATM. Authorities said the killing was orchestrated by Voss’ wife and her boyfriend and designed to look like a robbery gone bad. ....