Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced new nominees Wednesday to serve on the Virginia Parole Board, after Senate Democrats' decision last month to dump four members of his initial slate of picks.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin has offered a slate of new appointees to fill vacancies on the Virginia Parole Board. This comes almost a month after the Democrat-controlled Senate voted to block Youngkin’s first round of appointees.
Virginia Dems Prepare to End Death Penalty Gov. Ralph Northam (D., Va.) / Getty Images
January 28, 2021 1:51 PM
Virginia Democrats plan to abolish the state s death penalty will soon get a full hearing in the state Senate, a process likely to end with the Old Dominion state becoming the first in the south to end capital punishment.
Senate Bill 1165, which would end executions and convert Virginia s outstanding death sentences to life without parole, advanced through two committees over the objections of a minority of Republicans before making it to the Senate floor on Wednesday. It will now face a full vote in the state s upper chamber, but Democratic control of both houses and of the governor s mansion indicate an eventual passage is likely.