Commentary: With death penalty, Texas clinging to a relic of the past
Roger C. Barnes, For the Express-News
May 1, 2021
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“The death penalty is unjust, racially biased, and ineffective at deterring crime.”
From a letter by 12 Virginia prosecutors urging abolition of the death penalty in the state
In March, Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia did something Texas Gov. Greg Abbott would consider unthinkable. He signed a bill abolishing the death penalty, making Virginia the first Southern state to stop executions.
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It was a significant step for Virginia, the first European colony in what is now the United States to have an execution in 1608. Going back to colonial times, Virginia has carried out more executions 1,390 than any U.S. jurisdiction. Since 1976, when the death penalty was reinstated by the U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia’s 113 executions trails only Texas’s 570.
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