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WKSU - Death row inmate Kevin Keith given reprieve
Death Penalty Cases Outside Virginia
Thursday, 02 September 2010

Gov. Strickland commutes Keith's sentence to life in prison
by WKSU's M.L. SCHULTZE
and Tim Rudell

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Washington Post Editorial - Death Row Visits
The Death Penalty in Virginia
Monday, 30 August 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010

 

THE VIRGINIA Department of Corrections has had a welcome change of heart on its death row visitation policy.

For the past three years, those sentenced to death have been allowed face-to-face visits with relatives, although they have not been allowed physical contact. The department said this month that it planned to toughen this already restrictive policy. Come Sept. 1, the dozen or so death row inmates in Virginia would have had to rely on video cameras to pipe in the sights and sounds of loved ones. No more eye contact, no more pressing hands against glass.

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Rich Times-Disp. - Virginia recinds death row video visitation policy
The Death Penalty in Virginia
Saturday, 28 August 2010

By DENA POTTER | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Virginia Department of Corrections dropped plans to end face-to-face visits between death-row inmates and their families yesterday, saying prison officials determined the policy wasn't necessary.

The department had planned to require all death-row visits be done via video beginning Sept. 1. Virginia would have been only the second death-penalty state to cut out face-to-face visits.

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Duke Univ. - Court Brief: White Juries Delegitimize N.C.s Death Penalty System
The Death Penalty Nationwide
Thursday, 26 August 2010

Professor Neil Vidmar’s brief addresses studies showing that African Americans who are neither opposed nor predisposed to imposing capital punishment are routinely excluded from juries in capital trials.

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