Centurion Ministries and the Boston Globe sought DNA tests that would definitively prove Coleman's guilt or establish his innocence. But Judge Keary R. Williams has ruled that twenty years after the crime, The Public Has No Right to Know . Bumps and potholes are slowing the pace of capital cases on Virginia's once smooth road from death sentence to execution. Virginia Scrutinizes Death Penalty Cases . She supports a Death Penalty Moratorium .
Capital punishment is to the rest of all law as surrealism is to realism.
The American Way of Execution Bill Lueders, News Editor of the Madison, Wisconsin Isthmus , considers the effects of the death penalty on innocent prisoners in states that do not conduct executions. They are Forgotten for Life . The AG says the judge Overstepped Authority . Their exonerations bring the total to 92 Freed from Death Row . In the past 12 months, questions have arisen about Virginia's capital punishment system, the most efficient in the country and, until October, a system that could be touted as error-free.