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"2 death penalty bills get vetoed," is the headline in the Roanoke Times.Gov. Tim Kaine vetoed a pair of bills Wednesday to broaden the death penalty by eliminating the state's "triggerman rule," even as the Virginia Senate voted to uphold his vetoes of two bills to expand the right to carry concealed guns in cars and restaurants. The triggerman bills would extend eligibility for capital punishment to certain accomplices who share "the same intent" as the actual killer. Despite arguments from the bills' supporters, Kaine sees the bills as an expansion of the death penalty, which he opposes on moral grounds. "Virginia is already second in the nation in the number of executions we carry out," Kaine said in a news release...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 06, 2008 (boomark / email).