Seven Black men who were executed for an alleged rape have been pardoned 70 years after their death. On Tuesday, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam granted posthumous pardons to the “Martinsville Seven,” a group of young Black men who were executed in 1951 for the alleged rape of Ruby Stroud Floyd, […]
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