Police arrested 14 death penalty protesters on Tuesday, Jan. 16, who unfurled a 30-foot wide banner with the message "STOP EXECUTIONS!" on the Court's marble plaza. VADP NOVA was there...
Recent News
- Saturday, 28 January 2012
Richmond Times-Dispatch - Capital punishment: A Christian response? - Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Nation now has 140 death row exonerees - Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Legal Times - 14 Arrested In Death Penalty Protest at Supreme Court - Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Delaware Online - Markell spares Gattis the death penalty - Saturday, 14 January 2012
HR Pilot - Va. high court denies serial killer's death penalty appeal - Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Rich Times Disp. - Study of DNA data shows potential for wrongful convictions - Friday, 06 January 2012
Birmingham News - Lawyer Richard Jaffe questions the death penalty - Wednesday, 04 January 2012
Time Magazine - Why the Death Penalty is Dying - Wednesday, 04 January 2012
New York Times Op-Ed: Justice and Prosecutorial Misconduct - Friday, 30 December 2011
Guardian - Grim reapings: how the cost of US capital punishment adds up - Friday, 23 December 2011
Washington and Lee Law Professor Predicts End of the Death Penalty - Monday, 19 December 2011
Mount Vernon Gazetter - Mother Condemns Death Penalty, Org aims for repeal of capital punishment - Friday, 16 December 2011
Open Society - Mumia Abu-Jamal's Journey Through the American Death Penalty System - Thursday, 15 December 2011
MSNBC - Death sentences, executions take 'historic drop', report says - Sunday, 11 December 2011
POLITICO: States push to end the death penalty
Virginia Execution Alerts
National Execution Alerts
Announcements
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- VADP Perspectives - Testimonials from our Board of Directors
I donate to VADP because I believe in its mission and because it has become a part of my support community as a murder victims’ family member. In 2001 I lost my Dad and step-mom to a brutal murder. When I went to the trials I continually heard how the death penalty was being sought to bring justice to the victims’ family, when in reality, my sister and I had specifically asked the prosecuting attorney to work towards life imprisonment. To think that a person could be killed for my justice doesn’t align with my belief system and is a burden I carry. The thought that another family would have to grieve this death for my justice is haunting. The death penalty won’t honor my dad and step-mom, or bring any sort of healing.
Nobody wants to live in a violent community and those of us for and against the death penalty alike are against murders and innocent people being tried and charged for crimes they didn’t commit. I believe that we, as a culture and a country, are smarter than the system we have in place. I donate to VADP because they’re working hard to create a different sort of system- one that I believe would bring me more healing and peace.
- Linell Patterson, VADP Board Member
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- Former VA Executioner, Jerry Givens - listen to the BBC podcast
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- Dead Man Walking available to students and educators
Get materials for the production: www.dmwplay.org---
- Check out photos from our recent event at UVA
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- ABA Journal - John Grisham Receives Harper Lee Prize
Photo courtesy of University of Alabama Law School.---
- Letter from VADP Board President, Matthew Engle
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- 2011 Board Planning Retreat - Ashland, VA
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- The four Executive Directors of VADP
Jack Payden-Travers, Steve Northup, Beth Panilaitis, and Henry Heller at the receptionfollowing Marie Deans' memorial service.
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- How Did Your Legislator Vote On the Death Penalty in 2011?
