Entries tagged with “Kristina Leslie”
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Jul 29, 2020
Commentary: Repealing Death Penalty ‘Essential to Racial Healing’ in Virginia
Recent police and vigilante killings of Black Americans have ignited a national call for systemic reform of law enforcement across the country, highlighting the link between extrajudicial abuse of force and widespread discriminatory application of unnecessarily harsh legal punishments against people of color. In the wake of these murders, Maryland public defender Kristina Leslie (pictured) writes, “[m]eaningful and equitable criminal justice reform … must include abolishing the death penalty.”