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Great Barrington historian Bernard Drew will present Local Skirmishes on the Road to Electrification More Than a Century Ago: Great Barrington and Salisbury for the Scoville Memorial Library at 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 13, on Zoom. Drew will discuss the 1886 event in the Berkshires which kicked off the Battle of the Currents between William Stanley (AC), working for George Westinghouse, and Thomas Edison and his electric company (DC) which eventually became General Electric. Drew will also discuss a skirmish of a different sort downriver in Salisbury in 1905 which launched an at-times bitter two-state confrontation. ....
Virginia one step closer to abolishing death penalty after state Senate approves bill Virginia’s state Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would abolish the death penalty, putting the southern state on the path to become the 23rd state to end capital punishment. The Commonwealth has executed more people than any other state since the Jamestown colony’s first recorded execution in 1608 for espionage, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The Democratic-led state Senate passed the measure by a party line vote of 21-17. The bill is now expected to move to the House of Delegates, where Democrats also hold the majority. ....
“They [inmates] will dwell in our penitentiaries until the very last breath that they take it is fair and just but is also fair for the victims, as well,” Mr. Stanley said. In addition to ending the death penalty, Mr. Surovell’s bill would commute the death sentences for the only two men currently on death row for capital murder Anthony Juniper and Thomas Porter to life in prison. Christopher Newport University released a survey Tuesday that found 56% of registered Virginia voters support repealing the death penalty. The data showed that support abolishing capital punishment fell along party lines, with 74% of Democrats backing the proposal and 64% of Republicans opposing it. ....
By FRANK GREEN Richmond Times-Dispatch A Senate bill to abolish the death penalty in Virginia survived three significant amendment attempts Tuesday and is set to be considered by the full body Wednesday. Senate Bill 1165 would change the more than one dozen types of capital murder â such as murder in the commission of a rape or the murder of a police officer, now punishable by death or life in prison â to aggravated murders, punishable by life without parole. However, under current law and under the abolition bills now pending in the Senate and House, a judge could still suspend part of the life sentence â except in the case of the murder of a police officer. ....
Shift in attitudes pushing lawmakers to abolish death penalty in Virginia By (0) Demonstrators with the group Death Penalty Action participate in a protest against the death penalty at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., in December. File Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo Feb. 2 (UPI) The Virginia Senate is expected to vote this week on a bill that seeks to abolish the death penalty and make it the 23rd state to ban capital punishment. In addition to outlawing the practice, Senate Bill 1165 would also automatically commute the death sentences of two men on death row to life imprisonment. ....