Kaine vetoes expansion of death penalty
March 5, 2008 | Virginia News
RICHMOND – Gov. Tim Kaine vetoed a pair of bills today to broaden the death penalty by eliminating the state’s “triggerman rule."
Senate Bill 560 and House Bill 933, which are identical, would extend that eligibility for capital punishment to certain accomplices who share “the same intent” as the actual killer.
Despite arguments from the bill’s supporters, Kaine sees the bill as an expansion of the death penalty, which he opposes on moral grounds.
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