Virginia executed a mentally ill man
On July 6th the state of Virginia executed William Morva for the 2006 murders of a sheriff’s deputy and a hospital security guard. Morva had been serving time in a county jail for an attempted armed robbery, that never took place, and premeditated his escape from jail. You may not have heard about this case though because it was an especially tough one; Morva suffered from severe mental illness and yet the jury on his case was never told that he was unable to separate “delusion from reality.” The state knew though and pushed for the death penalty anyway. RELATED...
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