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Feb 09, 1982 Midlothian, Virginia, Virginia, United States Died on 06 Jul 2017 (aged 35)
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About William Morva
- William Charles Morva (February 9, 1982 – July 6, 2017) was a Hungarian-American convicted of the two 2006 shooting deaths of Sheriff's Deputy Corporal Eric Sutphin and hospital security guard Derrick McFarland in the town of Blacksburg, Virginia.
- The shooting deaths occurred near the university campus of Virginia Tech while he awaited trial for attempted armed robbery.
- A jury sentenced him to death on June 23, 2008, but some doctors stated that he suffered from a serious mental illness, a delusional disorder that caused him to kill.
- Judge Ray Grubbs initially set the execution date for October 21, 2008.
- On June 4, 2009, an appeal for William Morva was made to the Virginia Supreme Court.
- However, the capital murder conviction and death sentence were confirmed on September 18, 2009.The United States Supreme Court declined to review the case in February 2017.
- Subsequently, Judge Robert Turk set the execution date for July 6, 2017.On June 20, 2017, Morva's lawyers, on his behalf, filed a request for clemency with Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe.
- They requested that Governor McAuliffe, in light of evidence concerning Morva's true mental state, commute his sentence from death to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
- They also urged the governor to ensure that Morva receive treatment with anti-psychotic drugs.
- Since Morva's lawyers filed his clemency petition, several local and international groups, as well 28 Virginia lawmakers called on Governor McAuliffe to halt the execution of Morva.The daughter of sheriff's deputy Sutphin, one of the two men slain by Morva, expressed her support for his clemency petition and asked the governor to spare his life.Despite the efforts of Morva's lawyers, and many supporters locally and internationally, Governor McAuliffe, declined to grant Morva's clemency.
- Morva was being held at the Greensville Correctional Center, in Jarratt, Virginia.Morva's lawyers released a statement on the governor's decision.
- They stated that, although Morva lost his battle for clemency, "they hope by improving access to proper evaluation and treatment for persons living with severe mental illness, we can avoid future tragedies." Morva was executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia and pronounced dead at 9:15 pm on July 6, 2017.
- He had no last words.The drug cocktail used for the execution was "a controversial lethal injection formula that may have subjected the last prisoner to be executed by the state to an excruciating death equivalent to drowning." The last prisoner to be executed in Virginia using this drug cocktail was Ricky Gray, who was executed in January 2017.
