Thanks to Governor Ralph Northam and the General Assembly, Virginia's long tradition of imposing the death penalty is headed for a permanent end in the near future. We look back at the history to see why this is a positive development for the commonwealth. With...
A shameful chapter in Virginia history: the Commonwealth’s 91 ‘racial terror lynchings’
Raymond Bird, a black man accused of having sex with a white woman, was reportedly asleep in jail in the western Virginia town of Wytheville when the mob arrived. Raymond Bird, a black man accused of having sex with a white woman, was reportedly asleep in jail in the...
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