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Jack Payden-Travers: Reflections: Ending the death penalty

Jack Payden-Travers Guest columnist Almost four decades ago, I made a move from New York City to Richmond, Va. I was coming for my wife’s job. Tim Kaine moved to Richmond, his wife’s home, the same year. We met at a church service and became friends. In 2004, I attended a vigil in front of the death house on the evening of Linwood Briley’s execution. The press reported that 500 people attended pro and con vigils that night in front of the state penitentiary in Richmond. I recall sensing the anger of those favoring death that was directed at our candlelight vigil, the repugnance of signs like “Fry Briley Fry” or “Chicken Fried Briley,” and the intimidation caused by occasional attempts by pro-execution participants to disrupt our vigil and the prayers being led by Bishop Walter Sullivan and the daughter of one of Briley’s victims. It was my first but not my last anti-execution vigil.

Virginia Abolishes Death Penalty: Now, Let s Abolish Genocide

Virginia Abolishes Death Penalty: Now, Let’s Abolish Genocide EIRNS A September 1992 march against the death penalty from Virginia’s capital Richmond to Washington, D.C., led by Lyndon LaRouche’s vice-presidential running mate Rev. James Bevel is met and addressed by LaRouche associate Michael Billington (center, necktie), on his way to a Virginia prison to serve a long sentence from the political prosecutions of LaRouche’s movement. April 17 The Virginia General Assembly and the state’s Governor made Virginia the first state of the old Confederacy to abolish the death penalty, in a signing ceremony March 24 at the Greensville Correctional Center near Jarratt, Virginia, where all the state’s executions had been carried out since 1991. The first execution in Virginia was carried out at Jamestown Colony in 1608 of a man convicted of spying for Spain, and the Commonwealth has executed more people than any other U.S. state. Since 1976, it has trailed only Texas in the numb

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