Try refreshing your browser, or Virginia lawmakers votes to abolish death penalty Back to videoVirginia has conducted 1,390 executions since 1608, the most in the United States and 68 more than Texas, the state with the second most executions. Former President Donald Trump, a Republican, resumed the execution of prisoners on federal death row last summer after a 17-year hiatus, killing 13 people convicted of murder. That followed six decades which saw a total of three federal executions. Democrat Joe Biden took office last month as the first U.S. president to commit to seeking to abolish the federal death penalty. Lawmakers in Congress are asking him to support bills that would repeal the death penalty.

Source: National Post February 05, 2021 16:41 UTC