| Legislation to end capital punishment in Virginia would mark the final nail in the coffin on a punishment thatâs been slowly dying out for years. The last two death sentences were handed down in Virginia in 2011, with no defendant since hearing that he must die for his crimes. Virginiaâs death row now counts only two men -- both convicted killers from Hampton Roads -- down from the dozens awaiting that fate in the 1990s. The Old Dominion hasnât executed a prisoner since 2017 -- with only five people dying at state hands since 2011. By contrast, the stated executed 57 people between 1995 and 2000. A bill sponsored by Scott Surovell, D-Mount Vernon, and William M. Stanley Jr., R-Franklin County, would mean the end of capital punishment in Virginia. Â Read more in this Sunday's Main News section. Â Arthur T. Carter has formed the Union Soldier Monument Advisory and Implementation Committee on the Eastern Shore to build a Civil War monument to men, African American and white, who fought for the federals. He started the group last summer when Confederate monuments around the country were being removed in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. The proposed statue would be a compromise in that it would sit opposite the Confederate monument that is there now. The Northampton Board of Supervisors recently voted to remove it but there isn't a time frame on the removal. That isn't going to stop the group's plan. It would be the same height as the Confederate monument, black granite, and its soldier would have the features of an African American man. Read more in this Sunday's Main News section
With Amazon selling thousands of Trump 2020 F*** Your Feelings flags, guess itâs not surprising that some wound up in yards in HR. But it makes people wonder what the rules are. Is it really ok to display curse words like that in full view of a public street? Yep. Â Â Â Â Â Â Read more in this Sunday's Main News section.
When it comes to pho, you want the soup that was born yesterday. Vietnamâs national dish is one of the worldâs great culinary inventions, a long-simmered beef noodle bowl prized for its clarity and aromatic balance, and the boomingly rich flavor of marrow drawn from the bones. It is almost certainly Vietnamâs best known culinary export, an easy-to-love soup whose low cost and apparent simplicity belies laborious hours of preparation. Â Read more in The Sunday Break section.
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