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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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Death penalty should be rarely invoked, but not abolished | News, Sports, Jobs


Feb 27, 2021
Virginia’s legislature has moved to ban the death penalty, a popular action in some quarters. Before Gov. Ralph Northam signs the bill into law, he should think about three victims: Debbie Dudley Davis, Susan Hellams and Susan Tucker.
The three along with two other women were raped and killed by Timothy Wilson Spencer, a serial killer who became known as the Southside Strangler. And there’s no doubt he was the first defendant in U.S. history convicted on the basis of DNA evidence. In a sense, he himself made the case that he murdered these women.
Spencer was executed in Virginia’s electric chair in 1994, seven years after the crimes. Do you want to be the person who says Spencer should have lived? Just 25 at the time of the first killing, he would not be 60 years old today. ....

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