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DC Examiner - Death Penalty Foes Ready for Fight as Expansion Looms in VA |
By: William C. Flook
Examiner Staff Writer
December 11, 2009
Death
penalty foes are readying a broad lobbying push to prevent an expansion
of capital punishment in Virginia next year, while proponents of
scrapping the "triggerman" rule say the lack of a veto threat makes
their goal likely to become law.
Virginia, with a few exceptions, limits the death penalty in capital murder cases to the killer -- or triggerman.
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