Governor Kaine has denied clemency for Dexter Lee Vinson:
‘Having carefully reviewed the Petition for Clemency and judicial opinions regarding this case, I find no compelling reasons to doubt Mr. Vinson’s guilt or to invalidate the sentence recommended by the jury and imposed, and affirmed, by the courts,’ Kaine said in a statement.
‘Accordingly, I decline to intervene.’
The U.S. Supreme Court has also denied Vinson’s request for relief.
Dexter will be scheduled to die tonight at 9 pm. As of writing this, he has two and a half hours live.
No crimes will be prevented, no threat will be averted, no lives will be saved. Only an act of the state cheapening all life.