Since the 2010 elections, newly empowered conservative and Republican state legislatures have gained national attention with their wars on public employee unions, additional restrictions on abortion and new barriers to voting.
Justice: The AG is right
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Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli clearly cares about justice — for both the innocent and the guilty.
By: Times-Dispatch Staff | Times-Dispatch
Published: May 09, 2012
Published: May 09, 2012
As a state legislator, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli was able to win elections in a district whose political slant diverged from his own. As a candidate for governor, he is now emphasizing an issue — the exoneration of those wrongly convicted — that will help him further broaden his appeal beyond the conservative base.
Va. has stockpile of drug used in lethal injection
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Larry Traylor, a corrections spokesman, said: “We don’t discuss our execution protocols.”
By: Frank Green | Times-Dispatch
Published: May 09, 2012
Published: May 09, 2012
Death-penalty critics say the Virginia Department of Corrections has a stockpile of an anesthesia drug used in executions that the Food and Drug Administration lists as being in short supply at hospitals, where it’s used during surgeries.
Little Connecticut’s big message on the death penalty
By E.J. Dionne Jr., Published: April 29
Against this backdrop, the little state of Connecticut has loomed as a large progressive exception. Last year, it became the first state to require employers to grant paid sick leave. It also enacted a law granting in-state tuition to students whose parents brought them to the United States illegally as young children.