...electric chair in 1985 but was granted a stay. A 1993 DNA test cast doubt on his guilt and prompted then-Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, a Democrat, to commute his sentence to life. Last fall, additional DNA tests found genetic material belonging...

...said: "It's very upsetting to him." Former governor gives up radio RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder has given up the radio talk show he launched after leaving the governor's mansion in 1994. Wilder, a maverick...

...Washington was sent to death row for the 1982 rape and murder of Rebecca Lynn Williams, 19. In 1994, then-Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, a Democrat, commuted Washington's sentence to life in prison on the basis of DNA tests that suggested Washington...