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US Supreme Court declines to hear appeal of William Morva, who killed 2 in Blacksburg
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US Supreme Court declines to hear appeal of William Morva, who killed 2 in Blacksburg
Posted: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 12:48 pm
By Jeff Sturgeon jeff.sturgeon@roanoke.com 981-3251
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to review the case of Blacksburg killer William Charles Morva, who awaits execution on Virginia’s death row. ... Court and prison officials will confer during the next few weeks on a date for his execution, according to Montgomery County Commonwealth’s Attorney Mary Pettitt. ... Jonathan Sheldon, a Fairfax attorney assisting Morva, said Morva will ask Gov. Terry McAuliffe to intervene by granting clemency. Sheldon said the petition will ask McAuliffe to reduce Morva’s sentence to life in prison without parole.
In 2006, when he was 24, Morva was jailed in Montgomery County on burglary and attempted robbery and other charges, but he escaped on a trip for medical care at Montgomery Regional Hospital. ... Morva beat a sheriff’s deputy in a hospital restroom and, with the deputy’s gun, shot and killed hospital security guard Derrick McFarland, who was unarmed. ... After initially eluding police, Morva shot and killed Cpl. Eric Sutphin of the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, who had joined the manhunt the next day. ... Morva was caught a short time later, convicted of multiple counts of capital murder and sentenced to death. The Virginia Supreme Court has affirmed his conviction and sentence.
Posted: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 12:48 pm
By Jeff Sturgeon jeff.sturgeon@roanoke.com 981-3251
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to review the case of Blacksburg killer William Charles Morva, who awaits execution on Virginia’s death row. ... Court and prison officials will confer during the next few weeks on a date for his execution, according to Montgomery County Commonwealth’s Attorney Mary Pettitt. ... Jonathan Sheldon, a Fairfax attorney assisting Morva, said Morva will ask Gov. Terry McAuliffe to intervene by granting clemency. Sheldon said the petition will ask McAuliffe to reduce Morva’s sentence to life in prison without parole.
In 2006, when he was 24, Morva was jailed in Montgomery County on burglary and attempted robbery and other charges, but he escaped on a trip for medical care at Montgomery Regional Hospital. ... Morva beat a sheriff’s deputy in a hospital restroom and, with the deputy’s gun, shot and killed hospital security guard Derrick McFarland, who was unarmed. ... After initially eluding police, Morva shot and killed Cpl. Eric Sutphin of the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, who had joined the manhunt the next day. ... Morva was caught a short time later, convicted of multiple counts of capital murder and sentenced to death. The Virginia Supreme Court has affirmed his conviction and sentence.
