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Crossing the River Styx: The Memoir of a Death Row Chaplain
February 24th, 2023 The Reverend Russ Ford, who served as the head chaplain on Virginia’s death row for eighteen years, raged against the inequities of the death penalty while ministering to the men condemned to die in the 1980s and 1990s. Ford stood watch with twenty-eight men, sitting with them in the squalid death house […]
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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 Virgin...
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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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