The Virginia Senate tackled several bills addressing acts of violence. And, after lengthy debate, Senators likely killed a measure that would have allowed Virginia to use electrocution as a form of execution, if necessary. As Virginia Public Radio’s Tommie McNeil reports, the Senate also gave preliminary approval to a measure to penalize so-called “celebratory gunfire.”
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