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Mar 24, 2021 · In one of the country’s landmark death penalty cases that may have marked a turning point, the justices ruled in a Virginia case in 2002 that executing convicts with intellectual disabilities violated the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
- Kent Sinclair
Kent Sinclair joined the law faculty in 1983 after seven...
- Innocence Project Clinic
News About the UVA Law Innocence Project. 9.21.22 ‘Serial’...
- Jennifer Givens
Jennifer Givens is a director of the Innocence Project...
- Kent Sinclair
Jul 1, 2021 · Virginia’s abolition of the death penalty was significant both historically and symbolically. Its repeal of capital punishment was the first time a Deep South state whose death penalty was closely tied to a history of slavery, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation had abandoned the punishment.
Dec 16, 2021 · Virginia’s historic abolition of the death penalty highlighted a year in which support for capital punishment continued to erode, according to the 2021 Year End Report from the Death Penalty Information Center.
Sep 6, 2021 · I have niche expertise in one category of shadow-docket activity: the death penalty. There were 13 federal executions during the last six months of the Trump administration, and the pertinent shadow-docket interventions disclose anything but a court abstaining in close cases.
Mar 24, 2021 · Virginia has become the first Southern US state to abolish the death penalty after its governor signed into law a bill that ends capital punishment.
Virginia is the first Southern state to abolish capital punishment. On March 24, 2021, Governor Ralph Northam signed legislation to end the death penalty in Virginia and reduce the sentences of the commonwealth’s two death-row prisoners to life without parole.
Mar 25, 2021 · Virginia became the first southern US state to abolish the death penalty after Governor Ralph Northam signed legislation on Wednesday. Virginia has carried out nearly 1,400 executions —...
