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Article: A necessary halt in state executions.(Local)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- April 3, 2008
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GOV. TIM KAINE'S decision to stop executions until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of lethal injection was a prudent move, not a political one.
The court has not allowed any inmate to be executed since September, when it agreed for the first time in more than a century to decide the legality of a particular method of killing. About 30 scheduled executions in 13 states have been postponed while the justices weigh the case from Kentucky.
Kaine, who opposes the death penalty personally but who has allowed four executions to proceed in the past two years, stayed until July 24 next week's scheduled execution of Edward N. Bell, convicted of killing a ...
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