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Review of the 2022 Session of the Virginia General Assembly
We have survived the first attempt to reinstate the death penalty in Virginia. During the recently adjourned 2022 Virginia General Assembly session, legislation was filed to reinstate capital punishment for killing a law enforcement officer. The Senate version (SB 379) was defeated in the Judiciary Committee on a 9-6 party line vote. In the House of […]
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The Future of VADP
Thirty years ago the founders of what came to be known as Virginians for Al...
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How Virginia’s Death Penalty Finally Ended
May 7th, 2021 The commonwealth was once the epicenter of executions. Now th...
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Martin Luther King III: ‘Death penalty was never intended … to give Black families like mine so-called justice’
April 17th, 2021 As the united South goes, so goes the nation.” These wor...
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Virginia Abolishes the Death Penalty After 413 Years and 1,390 Executions
On March 24th, Governor Ralph Northam signed legislation that abolished cap...
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I prayed Virginia would end the death penalty. It finally did — and gave other states hope.
February 19, 2021 I met my wife, Anne, a native Virginian, in law school in...
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