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Virginia, first state in the southern United States to abolish the death penalty

2021-03-24T19:37:44.990Z


Virginia, which has the record for executions on American soil, became on Wednesday March 24 the first state in the former segregationist South to abolish the death penalty. Read also: United States: Can Joe Biden definitely abolish the death penalty? " Today there is no place for the death penalty in this state, in the south and in this country, " Democratic Governor Ralph Northam said during a


Virginia, which has the record for executions on American soil, became on Wednesday March 24 the first state in the former segregationist South to abolish the death penalty.

Read also: United States: Can Joe Biden definitely abolish the death penalty?

"

Today there is no place for the death penalty in this state, in the south and in this country,

" Democratic Governor Ralph Northam said during a ceremony at Greensville prison, where so far the executions take place.

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Source: lefigaro

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