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governor > issue a partial pardon to N

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/
us/07norfolk.html

pardoned

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/
us/pardon-north-carolina-compensation.html

pardon

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/05/
us/gavin-newsom-pardons-kruzan.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/16/
opinion/16herbert.html

the Martinsville Seven > posthumous pardons        USA

Seven Black men were executed in February 1951

over the alleged rape of a white woman,

Ruby Stroud Floyd, in 1949.

They were Frank Hairston Jr., 18,

Booker T. Millner, 19,

Francis DeSales Grayson, 37,

Howard Lee Hairston, 18,

James Luther Hairston, 20,

Joe Henry Hampton, 19,

and John Claybon Taylor, 21.

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/31/
1032859243/virginia-history-pardons-execution-civil-rights-martinsville-seven

https://www.governor.virginia.gov/media/governorvirginiagov/
governor-of-virginia/pdf/Martinsville-Seven-Grant.pdf

exoneration

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/06/
us/06norfolk.html