Friday, February 05, 2021

Virginia is close to abolishing capital punishment

Since taking control of the state Legislature in 2019, Virginia Democrats have enacted a run of progressive laws — on gun control, abortion access and the removal of Confederate monuments. Now Virginia is poised to become the first state in the South to abolish the death penalty, a sign of ascendant liberal political power in a state that has executed more people since the 1970s than any other except Texas.

Read the rest here.

With the exception of intentional murder committed by already life sentenced inmates and a handful of very rare crimes like treason and wartime spying, I am an opponent of capital punishment. So this doesn't particularly bother me. But I must note the hypocrisy of Gov. Northam who bemoans the machinery of death while doing everything in his power to facilitate the legal killing of children by their mothers purely on the basis of their not yet having been born. 

3 comments:

The Anti-Gnostic said...

Prisons are unjust and uneconomic. There is a good argument that all punishment should be corporal, capital or financial. Exile would be good too, but we've run out of room.

Stephen said...

Can we do the same for power-hungry, sniveling, WASP-wanna-be hierarchs and clerics? How about Mars? That's a good place for exile. Make sure it's in a colony run by the People's Republic of China. Now that would be fitting.

Greg DeLassus said...

I must note the hypocrisy of Gov. Northam who bemoans the machinery of death while doing everything in his power to facilitate the legal killing of children by their mothers purely on the basis of their not yet having been born.

+1