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The time has come to end Virginia’s death penalty
By PauL OSmEA
irginia will have a lifesaving
] opportunity in 2021 to bring
two recial and criminal jus-
tice movements together, re-
dressing in a modest way biased
judicial histories.
Capital punishment in Virginia can
be erased in 2021, when the General
Assembly considers and passes repeal
legislation. It will be a historic step in
acknowledging the systemic injury
inflicted om black Virginians over
centuries.
Our commonwealth bolds the du-
bious honor of being the first and
most lethal executioner in the nation.
Indeed, it was in the Jamestown
Colony of 1608 that Captain George
Kendal] was shot for treason, the
state's first recorded execution. Since
then, no other state — not Texas, not
OWahoass, not Plorida — has inflicted
the irreversible punishment on more
of its citizens.
Lynchings, particularty in Virginia,
were the linkage between vigilante
Justice and later ractal violence. From
1965 to 1950, nearly 6,500 document
ed Iynchings occurred in the United
States. Seven in 10 victims were black.
The death penaltys modern era
began in 1976 when the Supreme
Courtrestored the punishment aftera
four-year moratorium, Since then, 113
men and women have been executed
in Virginia, and race frequently has
been an important factor. Only four
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An antl death ponalty vigil In Arfington In 2015.
executions involved a white defen,
dant killing a black person, all since
1997.
Defendants’ and victims’ skin col-
ors play crucial and unacceptable
roles in deciding who receives the
death penaky in the United States.
While black people make up 13
percent of the population, they ac
count for 42 percent of the 2,620 men
and women on death row. Seventy-six
percent of those executed since 1976
had white victims even though 50
percent of murder victims are white,
Only 15 percent of executions since
1976 had a black victim
Progress toward Virginia death
penalty reform has grown steadily in
the past decade, as death sentences in
Virginia are largely a relic of the past.
The last death sentence in Virginia
was handed down in 2011 The last
execution took place in 2017. Curremt-
ly, two black men are on death row. In
each case, there are reasons to believe
their sentences could be overturned
by the courts because of significant
trial errors.
Repeal is just over the horizon,
while progress on reform appeared
recently. In the 2020 legislative sew
sion, the Virginia Senate approved a
bill to prohibit the execution of se
verely mentally ill prisoners by an
overwhelming 32-to-7 bipartisan
margin. The House of Delegates did
not consider the bill, however
In 1991, 13 actvocates formed Vir-
ginians Against State Killing as a
response to a survey that revealed
that while citizens supported the
death penalty, if given a choice, Vir-
ginia citizens they favored a sentence
of life without parole and certain
restrictions over capital penishment
The organization became Virginians
for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
in 1004.
Today, Virginians for Alternatives
to the Death Penalty has more than
3,000 members representing a cross
section of political and religious be
liefs and affiliations. In addition to
traditional allies such as Democrats
and progressives, the issue has at-
tracted large numbers of advocates
who classify themselves as conserva-
tives and libertarians. In 2021, Virgin-
jans for Alternatives to the Death
Penalty will commemorate its 20th
anniversary, with the strong convic-
tion that capital punishment will dis-
appear from the state’s criminal code.
In this unique time of noed for
racial healing and restoration, ending
the death penalty in Virginia will be
judged as a small but significant step
in reconciliation.
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Dale Brumfield,
Anti-Death Penalty Advocate
February 19th from 12:50-1:50 on Zoom
RSVP via Google form! We will email the Zoom link to
participants the morning of the event.
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