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.
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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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