MANGINO: Commonwealths unite in disdain for capital punishment
MANGINO: Commonwealths unite in disdain for capital punishment By Matthew T. Mangino This week, the Commonwealth of Virginia officially abolished the death penalty, making it the first Southern state to ban capital punishment. “Justice and punishment are not always the same thing, that is too clearly evident in 400 years of the death penalty in Virginia,” Gov. Ralph Northam said during remarks ahead of signing the legislation, saying that it is both the right and the moral thing to do. While Virginia has now become the first state of the former Confederacy to ban the death...
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