| VA Pilot - Most Death Penalty Expansion Bills Rejected |
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RICHMOND With a governor supportive of expanding capital punishment finally in office, this was going to be the year a perennial effort to repeal the state’s so-called triggerman law finally found success. But Monday, a Senate committee that had reliably approved the effort in past years voted it down in the face of arguments about the costs of making more crimes eligible for the death penalty – and a plea from Virginia’s former chief executioner to stop expanding capital punishment. |
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