Virginia governor refuses to halt inmate's execution
Morva's death sentence, for killing an unarmed security guard and a sheriff's deputy in a 2006 escape from custody, hastriggered renewed debate about capital punishment for the mentally ill.Morva, 35, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 9 p.m. EDT (0100 GMT on Friday)."The record before me does not contain sufficient evidence to warrant the extraordinary step of overturning the decision of a lawfully impaneled jury following a properly conducted trial," Governor Terry McAuliffe, a Democra
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