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...