{"id":4793,"date":"2021-10-18T11:34:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T18:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=4793"},"modified":"2021-10-19T14:23:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T21:23:10","slug":"politicians-in-va-want-to-restore-parole-murderers-included","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=4793","title":{"rendered":"Politicians in VA Want to Restore Parole, Murderers Included"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Senator Joe Morrissey (D. Richmond) plans to introduce a bill in 2022 that will restore parole to make violent criminals, including murderers, eligible for release from prison after serving 15 years of less. \u00a0 Attorney Hans Bader <a href=\"https:\/\/libertyunyielding.com\/2021\/10\/16\/virginia-likely-to-reinstate-parole-for-even-murderers\/\">writes<\/a> in Liberty Unyielding that the Democrat majority in Virginia&#8217;s House of Delegates and in the Senate almost assures passage. Gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe has indicated that he would support efforts to restore parole if elected next month.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Virginia abolished parole in 1995 by passing a &#8220;truth in sentencing&#8221; law in response to high crime rates, including numerous crimes committed by habitual criminals free on parole.\u00a0 Bader cites examples including Kenneth McDuff, who, at age 19 along with an accomplice, kidnapped three teenagers.\u00a0 The two teenaged boys were shot to death, and the girl was raped and tortured before being killed.\u00a0 McDuff&#8217;s three death sentences were converted to a life sentence after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in <a href=\"https:\/\/tile.loc.gov\/storage-services\/service\/ll\/usrep\/usrep408\/usrep408238\/usrep408238.pdf\">Furman v. Georgia<\/a> and he was released on parole in 1989.\u00a0\u00a0 McDuff went on to kidnap, rape, torture and murder at least 15 women.\u00a0 He was executed in Texas in 1998.\u00a0\u00a0 Albert Flick was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the 1979 stabbing murder of his wife in front of her daughter in Westbrook, Maine.\u00a0 He was released on parole 21 years later.\u00a0 Between 2000 and 2016,\u00a0 Flick returned to prison three times for assaulting women.\u00a0 Finally in 2018, at age 77,\u00a0 Flick stabbed a woman to death in front of her two children.\u00a0 He is currently serving a life sentence in a Maine prison.<\/p>\n<p>Bader notes that\u00a0 &#8220;Restoring parole could result in Virginia having a high crime rate like neighboring Maryland, which has parole. Maryland has a violent crime rate more than double Virginia\u2019s. In 2018, Maryland had a violent crime rate of 468.7 per 100,000 people, according to USA Today, compared to a violent crime rate of only 200 per 100,000 in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Forty years ago, Virginia\u2019s Fairfax County had a similar crime rate to Montgomery County, Md., which is demographically and economically similar. But that changed after prison sentences became longer in Virginia, and Virginia eliminated parole. Fairfax County ended up with a much lower crime rate than Montgomery County.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ABC\u2019s channel 7 discussed this in 2019 in \u201cWhy is Montgomery County\u2019s violent crime rate twice as high as neighboring Fairfax County.\u201d Law enforcement sources attributed Montgomery\u2019s higher crime rate to the fact \u201cthat the Maryland Judiciary is, generally speaking, more lenient on criminal defendants\u201d and the fact that \u201cVirginia has stricter laws on the books\u201d and \u201charsh sentences,\u201d which are \u201ca huge deterrent\u201d to crime. \u201cCriminals know if you commit crime in Virginia you might get whacked, while in Maryland, you might just get slapped on the wrist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Virginia politicians are apparently ready to eliminate that deterrent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Senator Joe Morrissey (D. Richmond) plans to introduce a bill in 2022 that will restore parole to make violent criminals, including murderers, eligible for release from prison after serving 15 years of less. \u00a0 Attorney Hans Bader writes in Liberty Unyielding that the Democrat majority in Virginia&#8217;s House of Delegates and in the Senate almost assures passage. Gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe has indicated that he would support efforts to restore parole if elected next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-probation-and-parole"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Politicians in VA Want to Restore Parole, Murderers Included - Crime &amp; Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=4793\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Politicians in VA Want to Restore Parole, Murderers Included - Crime &amp; Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Virginia Senator Joe Morrissey (D. 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