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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 there was no parole. Parole will be made available even to people who commit a Class 1 felony, which includes the worst murders, such as serial killers who commit the willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing of more than one person in a single crime spree. Because the death penalty will likely be abolished this year in Virginia, this legislation would mean that even the worst mur

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