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Virginia Senate Committee Rejects Expansion

By Steve Hall

"Va. Senate panel rejects death penalty use for accomplices," is the title of Rosalind Helderman's article in today's Washington Post.A key committee of the Virginia Senate rejected a bill Monday that would have expanded the use of the death penalty to accomplices of murder after the former chief executioner of the commonwealth testified that he thought the death penalty should be limited. The same measure passed the Democratic-led senate last year, and only a veto by then-Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) kept it from becoming law. The Virginian Pilot reports, "Most Va. death penalty expansion bills rejected."  It's written by Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer.  Here's an extended excerpt:With a governor supportive of expanding capital punishment finally in office, this was going to be the year a perennial effort to repeal the state?s so-called  triggerman  law finally found success...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 16, 2010 (boomark / email).