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Morva execution set for July 6
"CHRISTIANSBURG An execution date has been set again for William Charles Morva.
This time, however, the death sentence that Morva received in 2008 seems likely to be enacted. In February, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Morvas final appeal.
In a brief Tuesday conference call with attorneys and state officials, Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Robert Turk scheduled Morvas execution for July 6. With the time to seek a rehearing by the Supreme Court expired, all thats left is to set a date for the sentence to be imposed, Turk said.
Immediately after the conference call, the Virginia Capital Representation Resource Center released a statement calling Morva a severely mentally ill man whose crimes were motivated by delusional disorder....
Morva, a former Blacksburg resident now being held at Sussex I State Prison, was convicted of three counts of capital murder for an August 2006 binge that began with his escape from custody and included the murders of Derrick McFarland, a security officer at Montgomery Regional Hospital, and Eric Sutphin, a corporal with the Montgomery County Sheriffs Office. Morvas third murder conviction came from killing two people in less than three years, a capital crime in Virginia...."
http://www.roanoke.com/news/crime/m...cle_0d8b2c7d-e6de-540f-9079-1273a37c4572.html
"CHRISTIANSBURG An execution date has been set again for William Charles Morva.
This time, however, the death sentence that Morva received in 2008 seems likely to be enacted. In February, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Morvas final appeal.
In a brief Tuesday conference call with attorneys and state officials, Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Robert Turk scheduled Morvas execution for July 6. With the time to seek a rehearing by the Supreme Court expired, all thats left is to set a date for the sentence to be imposed, Turk said.
Immediately after the conference call, the Virginia Capital Representation Resource Center released a statement calling Morva a severely mentally ill man whose crimes were motivated by delusional disorder....
Morva, a former Blacksburg resident now being held at Sussex I State Prison, was convicted of three counts of capital murder for an August 2006 binge that began with his escape from custody and included the murders of Derrick McFarland, a security officer at Montgomery Regional Hospital, and Eric Sutphin, a corporal with the Montgomery County Sheriffs Office. Morvas third murder conviction came from killing two people in less than three years, a capital crime in Virginia...."
http://www.roanoke.com/news/crime/m...cle_0d8b2c7d-e6de-540f-9079-1273a37c4572.html
