By: Teddy Grant Virginia's Democratic governor, Ralph Northam on Wednesday, signed a bill into law that abolished the state's death penalty, making it the first Southern state to do so. 'Justice and punishment are not always the same thing; that is too clearly evident in 400 years of the death penalty in Virginia,' Northam said, according to NBC News. Virginia is the 23rd state to ban the death penalty. 'I can say the death penalty is fundamentally flawed,' he said. 'We know the system doesn't always get it right,' he said, adding, 'Make no mistake — if you commit the […]
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