Virginia meets first EEU South State to abolish death penalty | International

Only from the governor’s firm, Virginia’s legislators approved this month abolishing the death penalty in the State that most executions have instrumental in the history of the United States. Not only that: the state of the country also acts as prime minister, concentrating on the partisan territories of the pen capital that it has. When the governor, Democrat Ralph Northam, headlined the bill for the law and put it in force, Virginia would be the 23rd State to abolish the death penalty, giving vigilantes another 27 (including the federal governor and military justice).

The Democratic House of Representatives has blamed adherence to the law based on the argument that the death penalty was applied disproportionately to people with color and mental problems. Local Republicans oppose resistance, considering that the middle of their repairs to the victims and their families, and that determined types of offenses are so terrible that they do not allow another option. A Republican senator summoned the Democratic representatives in the vote.

The State of Virginia executed approximately 1,400 people since the first year, in 1608, in its days as a colony, according to the NGO Information Center for the Death Penalty (DPIC, in its English seals), where the same number as executed in all lands since 1976 (1,532). Since the Supreme Court of EE UU reinstated the pen capital in 1976, Virginia has executed 113 people, the second most significant number in Texas. This sad percentage is due, according to the NGO citation, to the combination of final defenses and the most draconian procedural standards of the country, in virtue of the values ​​that negate any revision of complaints that its lawyers impose with defect in form when, due to allegations of misconduct, his defense encloses the spaces for presentation.

The entry into force of the lie has led to the salvage for the two presidents who quedaban in the corridor of the death of Virginia, both condensed in the first decade of this sail. The reos complete the perpetual path, without the possibility of obtaining the conditional freedom.

“This dolorous history exposes the racism that underpins capital”, writes the week passed in the diary The Washington Post Democrat Tim Kaine, who was the governor of Virginia and currently represents the EEU State Senate. “In Sail XIX, Virginia executed 513 blacks and only 41 blanks,” Kaine recorded in the article, adding that deletions that are only specified as offenses in the event that perpetuate a white constitute punishable crimes if they commit a black. Between 1908 and 1965, 55 people – all blacks – were adjusted for violation or intent to violate. As advocated, and ahead of the jump in politics, Kaine represented many issues in the corridor of death.

Only 55% of the stadiums considered high, following a Gallup poll, that the penal capital is the caste adequate for a caregiver, the most supportive story in history, the Republican Donald Trump has resigned from the presidency with a record of executions of federal pres. Hasta julio pasado, no se había executed a ningún reo federal in 17 años, un rord al que puso término el rhythmo irpro Imprinacion Republican, responsable del burgemeester número de ejecuciones en cien años, y contrario a la tendens a la aprepiable los States.

The figure of federal taxes adjusted by the Trump Administration in less than one year is the sum of the sentences executed by the States during this period. On October 1, there were 2,494 deaths in the corridor of the deaths of the 28 states that, including Virginia, applied for capital, according to the DPIC. In total, there are 55 others in federal prisons, and some more in the military. Since 1998, since 295 condos have been imposed, the figure has been drastically reduced since then, registering in 2020 the minimum number of cases (18). Elected President Joe Biden promised to accept the death penalty application.