It wasn’t Virginia but North Carolina that held the 1,000th execution on December 2nd 2005. The governor of Virginia commuted the sentence of Robin Lovitt, who would have been the 1,000th, to life in prison without parole due to concerns that Lovitt could not pursue new DNA testing on crucial evidence that might have proved his innocence.
The 1,001st execution followed on the same day in South Carolina which brought the total so far in 2005 to 57. Four more are scheduled during December in California, Mississippi, Maryland and Pennsylvania. There are already 17 executions, including 10 in Texas, scheduled for the first 6 months of 2006.
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