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| Gov. McAuliffe amends electric chair bill to allow secretly made drugs for lethal injection |
| By pilotonline.com |
| Published: 04/12/2016 |
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Gov. Terry McAuliffe proposed that the state secretly make drugs for use in lethal injections and asked lawmakers for approval, telling them Monday that opposition would effectively end the death penalty in Virginia. Lawmakers did not debate such a proposal during the recent General Assembly session. McAuliffe introduced it through a last-minute amendment to a bill mandating that the electric chair be used when drugs for injection aren’t available. His deadline was midnight Sunday. Del. Jackson Miller of Manassas, the Republican who introduced the electric-chair legislation the General Assembly sent to McAuliffe, said in a statement he supports the governor’s amendment and would encourage his House colleagues to back McAuliffe. A similar, McAuliffe-backed proposal in 2015 by Sen. Dick Saslaw, D-Fairfax County, passed the Senate but was defeated by the House. Read More. |
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