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On July 2, 1976, the United States Supreme Court decided Gregg v.
In March, Virginia abolished capital punishment, startling many Americans.
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Virginia’s state Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would abolish the death penalty, putting the southern state on the path to become the 23rd state to end capital punishment.
It is possible — some say, likely — that Virginia will soon abolish the death penalty, making it the 23rd state, and the first Southern one, to do so.
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For long anxious months, the 83 in mates of death row at California’s San Quentin prison waited for the State Supreme Court to rule upon the appeals of Frederick Saterfield and Robert Page Anderson.