Virginia Killer's Sentence Commuted to Life in Prison

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › November 30, 2005

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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Virginia's governor on Tuesday spared the life of a convicted killer who would have been the 1,000th person executed in the United States since the Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976.

Robin Lovitt's death sentence was commuted to life in prison without parole a little more than 24 hours before he was to be executed by injection Wednesday night for stabbing a man to death with a pair of scissors during a 1998 pool-hall robbery.

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Virginia Killer's Sentence Commuted to Life in Prison

In granting clemency, Gov. ...

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