USA - Virginia. The Senate today couldn't override Gov. Tim Kaine's vetoes on laws to expand the death penalty
USA - Virginia. The Senate today couldn't override Gov. Tim Kaine's vetoes on laws to expand the death penalty
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Efforts to expand the death penalty in Virginia have failed. The Senate today came up a few votes shy of the needed 2/3 majority to override Gov. Tim Kaine's vetoes. They bills would have extended capital punishment to murder accomplices and to those who kill on-duty fire marshals and auxiliary police officers.
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- (source: Associated Press, 08/04/2009)
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