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Bill to ban death penalty for severely mentally ill clears GOP-controlled Va. Senate
January 17, 2019 Virginia’s Republican-controlled state Senate voted Thursday to ban the death penalty for criminal defendants with severe mental illness, despite warnings…Read More >>
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Ban on execution of mentally ill moves forward in Virginia Senate
January 14, 2019 A state Senate panel voted Monday to bar the execution of ...
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Appeals court rules 2011 Fairfax County death sentence flawed
By Frank Green November 27, 2018 A jury that sentenced a Virginia man to de...
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Va. jury deadlocks on death sentence for man who killed wife and police officer
By Ian Shapira October 25, 2018 A Virginia jury could not agree on whether ...
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It’s cruel but not unusual for Virginia to execute the seriously mentally ill
By Paul O’Shea June 15, 2018 The last person executed in Virginia was...
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