Virginia Capital Representation Resource Center [VCRRC] News Clippings (1980-1990)

MSS 2019-03

Virginia Capital Representation Resource Center [VCRRC] News Clippings (1980-1990)

Overview

Collection of newspaper clippings related related to homicide, capital cases, and death row from local Virginia newspapers (1980-1990)

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 15 Cubic Feet (15 archival cartons)

Scope & Contents

The VCRRC, which is a local non-profit that provides representation in death penalty cases donated its collection of Virginia newspapers clippings in April of 2019. These materials (15 cartons, 15 linear ft.) were originally part of a project managed by Richard Bonnie and consist of news clippings about crimes that could potentially become death penalty cases. Bonnie explained that he contacted a clippings service agency in order to enable research into when the death penalty was and was not applied—was there discrimination in application— after its reinstatement in 1976. Bonnie said that no one was doing this work at the time and there was no other way he could think of to determine when the death penalty was applied. As far as he knew, no one had ever completed a significant review of the files to determine the application of the death penalty.

Collection Description

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    Arrangement

    Boxes 1-8 are organized by date.

    Box 9 has folders organized by date as well as folders organized by content.

    Boxes 10-11 have folders organized by location and date.

    Boxes 11-14 contain folders organized by the last names of inmates on death row and defendants in capital cases.

    Boxes 14-15 contain non-client news clippings which touch on subjects including lethal injection, the federal death penalty, and jail reform.

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    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    This collection was transferred to the Law Library in April of 2019. Prof. Bonnie, that has worked with the VCRRC, thought the files were worth keeping.

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otherlevelNews clippings 1981-1988Box 1
otherlevelNews clippings: March-May 1988 to October 1990Box 2
otherlevelNews clippings: October 1990 to January 1994Box 3
otherlevelNews clippings: January 1994 to March 1994Box 435007008622346
otherlevelNews clippings: April 1994 to August 1994Box 5
otherlevelNews clippings: August 1994 to April 1995Box 6
otherlevelNews clippings: February 1995 to October 1995Box 7
otherlevelNews clippings: May 1995 to December 1995Box 8
otherlevelNews clippings: January 1996 to March 1996, and undatedBox 9
otherlevelNews clippings, Northern Virginia homicides: April 1992 to December 1993Box 10
otherlevelNews clippings sorted by location and date and death row clippings organized by defendant last name.Box 11
otherlevelDeath row clippings sorted by defendant last name.Box 12
otherlevelDeath row clippings sorted by defendant last name.Box 13
otherlevelCapital cases sorted by defendant last name and non-client news clippings sorted by content.Box 14
otherlevelNon-client news clippings sorted by content.Box 15
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