Chapter 11. Sentencing

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Chapter 289 - An Act providing for detention or commitment of minors under seventeen years of age, appoved March 16, 1910

On 9 April 1912, Virginia Christian was found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to death by electrocution at the Virginia Penitentiary on 21 June 1912. Christian’s lawyers argued that under Chapter 289 of the Acts of the General Assembly, Session 1910, she should not have been sentenced to death.

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Expect Verdict in Christian Case Today, Times-Herald (Newport News), April 9, 1912.

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Will Appeal Case of Virginia Christian, Times-Herald (Newport News), April 10, 1912.

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Times-Herald Again Ahead, Times-Herald (Newport News), April 10, 1912.

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Murder Trial was Conducted Perfectly, Times-Herald (Newport News), April 10, 1912.

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Death Sentence for Murderer of Mrs. Ida V. Belote, Daily press (Newport News, Va. : Final ed.), April 10, 1912.

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Copy of April 9, 1912, Elizabeth City County Circuit Court Judgement sentencing Virginia Christian to death by electrocution at the Virginia Penitentiary on June 21, 1912.