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August 16, 1912, the day after her seventeenth birthday, Virginia Christian died in the electric chair at the state penitentiary in Richmond, Virginia; she is the only female juvenile executed in the commonwealth’s history. She had been found guilty of murdering fifty-one-year-old Ida Belote in a bedroom of the woman’s Hampton home.

Times-Herald reporter Charles Mears covered the trial and interviewed the girl after she was sentenced. Though she confessed her guilt, Mears twice wrote William Hodges Mann, the last Confederate veteran to serve as governor, asking him to spare her life.

— The Author