AP – Execution date set for Va. prisoner who killed two fellow inmates
Posted: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 11:05 am | Updated: 11:44 am, Tue Nov 27, 2012.
Associated Press |
A Virginia prisoner who killed his cellmate and strangled another inmate in the state’s highest security prisons, and vowed to keep killing unless put to death, will be executed in January.
A Wise County judge today set a Jan. 16 execution for 42-year-old Robert Gleason Jr.
Gleason has refused all state and federal appeals in his case.
Times-Dispatch Opinion – Criminal Justice: AG & innocence
Posted: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 12:00 am | Updated: 10:08 pm, Mon Nov 19, 2012.
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s critics — and they are legion — vilify him as an arch-conservative bomb-thrower. To a large degree he has invited those attacks through his sallies against abortion clinics, climatologist Michael Mann and the EPA. But in other areas Cuccinelli’s aggressive approach may pay dividends that should gladden liberal hearts.
The attorney general is drafting legislation to modify Virginia’s 21-day rule, which (with certain exceptions) prohibits the introduction of exculpatory evidence more than three weeks after a conviction, even if such innocence proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that a convicted man is innocent.
The Harvard Crimson – To Talk About an Injustice
I’m a registered Republican opposed to the death penalty, and I’m disappointed that’s a surprising statement. I’m also disappointed that California voters rejected Proposition 34 last Tuesday, which would have repealed the state’s death penalty law.
But I didn’t always feel this way.