Virginia’s Senate voted on Wednesday to abolish the death penalty in a move that could make the commonwealth one of the first states in the South to end capital punishment.
Twenty-one Democrats voted to abolish the death penalty, while 17 Republicans voted to keep it and one person abstained, The Washington Post reported.
Virginia Democratic Sen. Scott A. Surovell, who originally sponsored the bill, used wrongful convictions and racial disparities in the application of the death penalty as reasons it should be abolished.
Republicans argued that there are some crimes that are so heinous that the death penalty is the only appropriate punishment.
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Makes sense.
Last year their governor came out in favor of infanticide R’L
It was a matter of time until they would stop looking at murder as a serious crime deserving a serious punishment,
The hypocrisy of Nancy Pelosi and her friends in the media is astounding.
Loan from the Almighty. But the murderer can still breath your air. We ask some states to bear the agony of this execution for these years. I suppose if you do not like it, you can find a state to live. That seems acceptable.
This is good. The death penalty as administered in the US is incompatible with the requirements for non-Jewish courts as set down in Bavli Sanhedrin.
You don’t know what you’re talking about. Leave the gemorah out of this.