by Cindy
The last time a Virginia jury sentenced someone to death was ten years ago, in 2011. The last time a jury heard a case where the prosecutor was seeking death was 2018, for a man who murdered his wife, and then a policewoman on her first day on the job with two capital charges to consider, they unanimously chose life in prison on one, and deadlocked on whether to sentence him to death in the other. And just last year, a judge completely dismissed the charges in a capital murder case three days into the proceedings.
But House GOP Leader Todd Gilbert, who appeared on WRVA Monday morning (listen to audio, below), somehow thinks Democrats (although there is bipartisan support for abolishing the death penalty, at least in the Senate) “have totally missed where Virginians are on their insatiable desire to undermine our criminal justice system.” Gilbert even