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Article: VIRGINIA TO MOVE FORWARD ON EXECUTIONS
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- April 17, 2008
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Virginia will resume its implementation of the death penalty
following Wednesday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld the
constitutionality of lethal injections.
Gov. Tim Kaine said earlier this month that he would halt
executions in the state until the court decided a case challenging
Kentucky's method of lethal injection. No executions have been
carried out in the U.S. since the court agreed last fall to hear the
case of Baze v. Rees.
The court's ruling effectively ended the short-lived moratorium
Kaine imposed April 1, a spokesman said.
"In light of the Supreme Court ruling, executions will move
forward according to the procedures that were in place prior to the
court's agreement to ...