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Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Virginia becomes the first southern state to end the death penalty

Ban comes after a yearslong battle by Democrats in the state, which previously had US’s second-highest number of executions

Virginia has become the 23rd US state and the first in the south to abolish the death penalty, a dramatic shift for the commonwealth which previously had the nation’s second-highest number of executions.

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from World news | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2PoTmqD

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