Virginia killed more people than any other state. It is time to end the “machinery of death”, it said in a statement. All that is missing is a signature to abolish capital punishment.

In american state Virginia The death penalty will be abolished. Both houses of state parliament voted for abolition, leaving only Governor Ralph Northam’s signature missing. His acceptance is considered certain. “This is an important step to ensure that our criminal justice system is fair and equitable,” Northam said in a joint statement on Monday with House Chairman Eileen Filler-Corn and Senate Majority Leader Dick Saslav. In the US, 22 out of 50 states have abolished capital punishment so far.

“In Virginia’s long history, this state has killed more people than any other state,” the statement said. “It is time we put an end to this machinery of death.” He said that death penalty is not a proper and effective means of criminal justice. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, there have been 113 murders in the state since 1976.

US President Joe Biden Rejects Death Penalty

Overall, the United States has a death sentence on the decline. In many places this has to do with changing public opinion, but also with increasing difficulties in obtaining the necessary substances for lethal injection. Furthermore, capital punishment is long and expensive – legal disputes.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, a total of 17 people were hanged in 2020 by five states and the federal government in the United States. The federal government had not given capital punishment for nearly two decades. Former president’s government Donald Trump However, their reproduction was implemented. New president Joe Biden Dismisses the death penalty.