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Recent News
- Thursday, 15 March 2012
Slate - The Exoneration of Bennett Barbour - Sunday, 04 March 2012
NYTimes - When Innocence Is Not Enough - Thursday, 23 February 2012
VA Pilot - 'Triggerman' revision killed by Va. Senate panel - Friday, 17 February 2012
Postlocal - House Votes to Redefine 'Triggerman' Rule - Monday, 13 February 2012
WVTF/Radio IQ - DNA Proves Wrongful Conviction - Thursday, 09 February 2012
Rich Times-Disp - Bill to expand eligibility for capital murder defeated in Senate committee - Thursday, 09 February 2012
Virginian-Pilot Editorial - Unwise expansion of death penalty - Friday, 03 February 2012
WVTF/NPR: the Use of the Death Penalty Declines - Monday, 30 January 2012
RTD Op/Ed - Virginia Maintains a Disturbing Death Penalty Legacy - Saturday, 28 January 2012
Richmond Times-Dispatch - Capital punishment: A Christian response? - Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Nation now has 140 death row exonerees - Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Legal Times - 14 Arrested In Death Penalty Protest at Supreme Court - Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Delaware Online - Markell spares Gattis the death penalty - Saturday, 14 January 2012
HR Pilot - Va. high court denies serial killer's death penalty appeal - Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Rich Times Disp. - Study of DNA data shows potential for wrongful convictions
Virginia Execution Alerts
- Jerry Terrell Jackson Pronounced Dead at 9:14 pm 8/18/11
- Reasons for Hope in Virginia
National Execution Alerts
- The Death Penalty in 2011 - Year End Report
- Despite doubts, state executed Troy Davis
- Photo essay of the Troy Davis execution by photographer Scott Langley
- Shouting from the Rooftops! - The Case of Cameron Todd Willingham
- US Exonerees from Death Row: 140
- National Executions Scheduled
Announcements
- Virginian-Pilot: Faith, obligation shape work of local capital defender
As the area's chief public defender in capital murder cases, Douglas Ramseur says there is no such thing as winning when a life hangs in the balance.
--- - VADP Perspectives - Testimonials from our Board of Directors
I donate to VADP because I believe in its mission and because it has become a part of my support community as a murder victims’ family member. In 2001 I lost my Dad and step-mom to a brutal murder. When I went to the trials I continually heard how the death penalty was being sought to bring justice to the victims’ family, when in reality, my sister and I had specifically asked the prosecuting attorney to work towards life imprisonment. Read More >>
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- Former VA Executioner, Jerry Givens - listen to the BBC podcast
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- Dead Man Walking available to students and educators
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- Check out photos from our recent event at UVA
Sixty people came out in Charlottesville to hear death row exoneree Nate Field tell his story of being wrongly convicted for a murder that he did not commit. VADP Director Steve Northup & Board Chair Matt Engle spoke about the death penalty in Virginia.
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- ABA Journal - John Grisham Receives Harper Lee Prize
Photo courtesy of University of Alabama Law School.
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- Letter from VADP Board President, Matthew Engle
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