Donald McEachin on Crime

Correct outdated discriminatory over-incarceration policies

• seek to reform our criminal justice system, ending self-defeating policies that promote over-incarceration and create a school-to-prison pipeline
• work to correct biases and disparities in policing and sentencing, both by changing unfair laws and by funding priorities like greater oversight, increased training, and body cameras for local law enforcement

No secret purchases of lethal injection drugs

Legislative Outcome:: Sen. McEachin voted YEA; passed House 59-40-1 on Feb. 10; passed Senate 22-16-1 on March 7; Gov. McAuliffe vetoed on April 8 and then signed substitute amendment

Oppose death penalty for accessories of capital murder

Summary by the ACLU: Death penalty critics feared that elimination of the "triggerman" rule might encourage prosecutors to bring many more death penalty cases and cause more executions to take place.

Veto message from Governor Tim Kaine: Virginia is already second in the nation in the number of executions we carry out. While the nature of the offense targeted by this legislation is very serious, I do not believe that further expansion of the death penalty is necessary to protect human life.

Legislative Outcome: Passed by Senate 28-11-1 on Jan/23/07; Passed by House 83-13-4 on Feb/21/07; Rep. McEachin voted NO; Vetoed by Governor Kaine on Mar/26/07