Jerry Givens, Virginia's state executioner from 1982 to 1999, legally put to death 37 people with the electric chair and 25 with lethal injection.His opinions reflect his fellow Virginians' own changing views and ambiguous responses to the use of the death penalty.
Some Virginians believe that capital punishment would help to stem violent crime, while others say that there were cases in which people were found to be innocent only after they were executed.
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