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Mission Accomplished: VADP Closing Down in February 2024
The VADP board of directors has decided to sunset the organization in February 2024 and rely on its legislative allies to defend our abolition victory in future years.
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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...
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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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