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By Hans Bader | January 15, 2021 | 4:04pm EST Featured is a gavel sculpture outside the Supreme Court of Ohio. (Photo credit: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images) Life sentences without parole may be abolished this year in Virginia, even for serial killers and those who once would have been sentenced to death. The powerful head of the state senate's Courts of Justice Committee, Sen. John Edwards (D-Roanoke), has just introduced a bill, SB 1370, to bring back parole, and retroactively make people eligible for parole even if they were sentenced at a time at which the...

But there are some hiccups. “There’s a lot of pieces involved,” said county elections chief Gretchen Reinemeyer, who aims to convene a summit of involved parties – county staff, Virginia Department of Elections, equipment vendors – early in the new year to “hash out all the details.” At the request of Del. Patrick Hope (D-Arlington), the General Assembly earlier this year voted to allow Arlington to serve as an instant-runoff guinea pig before other localities have the option to implement it a year from now. The instant-runoff process already is in use when ...

The Virginia Capitol building on a chilly January morning. (Courthouse News photo / Brad Kutner) RICHMOND, Va. (CN) — Virginia Republican legislators are pushing for new transparency requirements in the state’s parole system after the agency tasked with doling out the rare reward for good behavior made several missteps during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.  But conversations about the state’s parole system, technically abolished in the ’90s as part of a nationwide tough on crime movement, are being welcomed by those on the left, now in control of the state’s legislative and exec...

Assault. fairfaxl denies both claims. state delegate patrick hope backed down from his threats yesterday afterfr a conference call with house democrats and legislative black caucus members who demanded that there be no rush to oust fairfax. this comesst amid the departure of four of the lieutenant governor staffers on friday leaving hiser office to work through the t turmoil. governor ralph northam will launch a listening tour around the state amid his own scandal involving the use o of blackfac which he denies. sources tellsie buzzfeed while prepping northam for the events advisers encouraged...

From africa landed on our shores and what we call now fort monroe -- >> also known as slavery. >> yeah, slavery. northam says his lieutenant governor justin fairfax must resign if sexual assault allegations against hem prove to be true. patrick hope plans to introduce articles of ippeachment againmp fairfax. he claims his interactions with two female accusers were sawn sensual. he's calling on the fbi to thoroughly investigate the women's claims. two new candidates for the democratic presidential nomination declared over the weekend. senator klobuchar launching her bid in the teeth of a bliz...