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Martinsville Seven Pardoned 70 Years After Execution
Loaded on May 15, 2022
by Anthony Accurso
published in Criminal Legal News
June, 2022, page 36
Filed under:
Wrongful Conviction,
Pardons/Clemency,
Lethal Injection Method of Execution.
Location:
Virginia.
by Anthony W. Accurso
Governor Ralph Northam (D-VA) signed posthumous pardons for seven Black men denied due process in a criminal case following a rape allegation involving a white woman in Martinsville, Virginia, in 1949.
On January 8, 1949, 32-year-old Ruby Stroud Floyd alleged she was raped by 13 Black ...
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