“And thus, he violated his campaign promise to “uphold the law.”
And I’d rather the resources that would have been used in a vain attempt to execute the scumbags before the SC rules be applied to putting other scumbags behind bars. Why continue what everybody knows would be a completely useless effort?
“Further, I respectfully disagree with the Governor’s decision to impose a blanket moratorium on all executions in Virginia. This moratorium will pre-empt the United States Supreme Court’s ability to decide whether other Virginia capital murderers present sufficient legal grounds to stay an execution. Additionally, other death-row inmates affected by the Governor’s actions have yet to select a method of execution as Virginia law provides, and only lethal injection cases are at issue in the Baze case. Finally, without knowing the date on which the United States Supreme Court will rule in Baze, a moratorium may unnecessarily delay justice in other Virginia cases.”