Tag: Martinsville Seven

• Virginia to abolish capital punishment.

  

  On February 3 the Virginia State Senate voted 21 to 17 in favour of abolishing Virginia’s death penalty. Two days later the House of Delegates voted 57-41 to back repealing capital punishment in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Governor Ralph Northam has also indicated he will back the decision, remarking that “The practice is fundamentally inequitable.…

  CrimeScribe

  February 9, 2021

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime

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