"Allies" Language Document, 2008 August 7
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FullscreenTo those of you who've committed yourselves to organizations with the aim of improving Virginia and our nation as a whole VADP would like to ask for a moment of your time. Virginia's captial punishment system is only one of many issues that burden our concience and we understand it takes super-human focus on the part of activists and organizers to keep from being pulled in myriad directions attempting to right all the world's wrongs. While the injustices of the world call out for attention and it is up to you to decide which causes merit your attention. It is with that understanding that we reach out to our allies to become involved in abolition of the death penalty in Virgingia. In the past, the Old Dominion was considered a stronghold for capital punishment and because of the alarming rate of executions here, many make the mistake of conitnuing that assumption. But our state is undergoing surprising changes politically and culturally that are encouraging to abolitionists and making a moratorium ever more attainable.
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