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Percy Walton had been scheduled to be executed tonight in Virginia. Yesterday, Governor Tim Kaine commuted the sentence because of Walton's mental illness. The Washington Post carries Kaine's statement on the commutation. "I have carefully considered over the past 24 months the question of whether the Commonwealth can carry out the execution of Percy Levar Walton in a constitutionally permissible manner. "There is no doubt that Walton killed three innocent people over a two-week period in November 1996. The victims met a fate they did not deserve and the families of the victims have suffered greatly from the loss of their loved ones. I have no reason to question the prosecutor's decision to seek the death penalty or the judge's decision that death was an appropriate sentence...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 10, 2008 (boomark / email).

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