Jennifer McClellan on Crime

	Jennifer McClellan on Crime

System focuses on punishment rather than rehabilitation

Virginia and the nation must reform a criminal justice system that too often disproportionately impacts communities of color, focuses more on punishment and incarceration than prevention and rehabilitation, and doles out punishments that are disproportionate to crimes. Virginia must also provide transparency and accountability for police misconduct and civilian oversight of law enforcement and criminal justice. Source: 2021 Virginia governor campaign website JennMcClellanVA.com , Feb 18, 2021

Capital crime for murder of law enforcement officers

SB 1501: Capital murder; punishment if against law-enforcement officers and fire marshals [OnTheIssues note: Virginia conducted 113 executions since the Supreme Court ruling in 1976, the second most in the country, behind only Texas. SB 1501 intended to apply the death penalty for cop killers. Virginia's last execution was in 2017; it was formally abolished in 2021.]

Analysis by WTVR 6-News 2/18/19: Senate Bill 1501 would make the mandatory minimum sentence for those convicted of the capital murder of a law enforcement officer life in prison. "If you're going to attack our law enforcement officers you're going to spend the rest of your life in prison or you're going to die and I think that helps us kind of take that target off of their back," said Sen. Bill Carrico.

Legislative Outcome: Passed Senate 35-5-0 on Feb/4/19; State Sen. Jennifer McClellan voted YES; Passed House 93-5-2 on Feb/20/19; Signed by Governor Ralph Northam on Mar/21/19

Source: WTVR 6-News on Virginia Legislative voting records SB1501 , Feb 4, 2019

No secret purchases of lethal injection drugs

Legislative Summary: State agencies may contract with pharmacies for compounding drugs necessary to carry out an execution by lethal injection. The compounding of such drugs is not subject to the jurisdiction of the Board of Pharmacy, the Board of Medicine, or the Department of Health Professions; and is exempt from the provisions of the Drug Control Act. The identities of any pharmacy that enters into a contract for the compounding of drugs necessary to carry out an execution by lethal injection, any employee of such pharmacy, shall be confidential, exempt from the Freedom of Information Act, and shall not be subject to discovery as evidence in any civil proceeding.
Legislative Outcome:: State Del. Jennifer McClellan voted NO; passed House 59-40-1 on Feb. 10; passed Senate 22-16-1 on March 7; Gov. McAuliffe vetoed on April 8 and then signed substitute amendment
Source: Virginia Legislative voting records on HB815 , Feb 10, 2016

Expand death penalty to accessories of capital murder
SB 1288: Redefines the "triggerman rule," which currently provides that only the actual perpetrator of a capital murder is eligible for the death penalty and that accessories and principals in the second degree can be punished only as if guilty of first degree murder.
Summary by the ACLU: Death penalty critics feared that elimination of the "triggerman" rule might encourage prosecutors to bring many more death penalty cases and cause more executions to take place.
Veto message from Governor Tim Kaine: Virginia is already second in the nation in the number of executions we carry out. While the nature of the offense targeted by this legislation is very serious, I do not believe that further expansion of the death penalty is necessary to protect human life.
Legislative Outcome: Passed by Senate 28-11-1 on Jan/23/07; Passed by House 83-13-4 on Feb/21/07; State Del. Jennifer McClellan voted YES; Vetoed by Governor Kaine on Mar/26/07
Source: Virginia Legislative voting record SB 1288 , Feb 21, 2007

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