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Posted: Wednesday, February 25,2015 12:00 am
BY THE EDITORIAL STAFF OF THEFREELANCE-STAR) Ocomments
Few mong the states than capital punishment
Texas, with a virtu i ichigan, which
aballzhed the death penalty in 1846, nine ate after became sit The ob atti het apnlies
the number of
Virginia is a part has only ei yw and has executed
onl five inmates inthe past five years ‘and hog Finer at anette eho support capital
is believed to be higher in Virginia, though
there isan absence of recent pol information.
Inany eu until Tuesday, when the House of Delegates defeated the measure, the General
lation that Senate Bill
1393, introduced by Sen. Richard Saslaw, a Sprngtiela Democrat, would protect the identity of the
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confidential, exempt from the Freedom of Information Act, and not subject to Asbovery or
introduction, acivil
‘The purpose of the legislation was to free the lethal drug pipeline from the hassles of public
¥, the event
The bill d by
in the House. Even Gov. Terry mcaulife cxpressed support for the measure.
‘That House members saw the light on this is a good thing because when the government looks to
shroud a government function in secrecy, as it did here, red flags go up, as they shoul
Akey reason US. executions has dropped in recent years lethal
injection drugs have dried up. They Europe
death upon and them
consumer backlash at home.
Oklahoma, which unseated Virginia as the No. 2 eee se last year, is among the states that
have sought went terribly
wrong, with the condemned iamateconvulsing Sunny ajrosoab that lowed d9stes unto
finally di
The US. Supt is on the US. and
unusual punishment, h ph
moratorium, Erie
Holder said last week that a national moratorium would be prudent until the Supreme Court issues
its findings.
“Pala” athe tenon abana th
guilt tose waa Weald otherwise ‘oppose it. Botched executions would counter that, and the
Tegisloion would protect the pompantes tat proted the feulty arugs bom bad publicity
than this. L way to address
an issue that merits straightforward debate.
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