‘It’s just another person dead’: Fight to end Virginia’s death penalty gaining momentum
Montgomery County Cpl. Eric Sutphin was killed in 2006
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RICHMOND, Va. – Efforts to end the death penalty in Virginia are moving forward in the General Assembly.
Eliminating capital punishment would be a future much different than its past. The commonwealth ranks second in the country for most executions since 1976.
“To me, it seems like an unjust system,” said Rachel Sutphin, who supports abolishing the death penalty.
Sutphin is among those backing Senate Bill 1165 and House Bill 2263. Removing the death penalty from Virginia is something she’s been pushing for since the Commonwealth’s most recent execution of William Morva in 2017.