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Virginia move to abolish death penalty part of broader wave of change


In early February, Virginia’s state legislature voted to abolish the death penalty – a significant change for a state that has executed more people than any other since its founding and is second only to Texas in executions since the late 1970s. Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam is expected to sign the abolition into law any day now, making Virginia the 23rd state to end the death penalty, and the first state to do so in the South, an area that far surpasses all other regions in executions.  
Change on this issue has come swiftly: Virginia will be the 11th state to abolish capital punishment so far in the 21st century. And while Virginia’s move reflects a political transformation in the former Confederate capital, which has become more Democratic in recent years, the death penalty is also one of a host of issues, like LGBTQ rights and marijuana legalization, where there’s been a rapid shift in thought nationwide – driven largely by millennials.  ....

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Abolition of the death penalty will end an institution once 'part of the fabric of Virginia'


FRANK GREEN
Richmond Times-Dispatch
There were nights when satellite trucks crowded the asphalt in front of the Greensville Correctional Center. Generators hummed and reporters did stand-ups washed in brilliant light.
Scores of cameras were aimed at a portable lectern where officials announced the times of death and last words of inmates whose still warm bodies were headed for the medical examiner’s office in Richmond to be autopsied and recorded as homicides.
Candle-carrying protesters gathered in the rural darkness in a field several hundred yards from the prison in Jarratt. Their prayers and vigils completed, they packed up for long rides home vowing to return the next time. ....

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