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    On August 3, 2015, Juniper's habeas petition was DENIED on remand in Federal District Court.

    https://cases.justia.com/federal/dis...?ts=1438696018

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    On February 2, 2016, US District Judge John A. Gibney, Jr. DENIED Juniper's request for reconsideration of both the denial of his habeas petition and the denial of a Certificate of Appealability.

    https://docs.justia.com/cases/federa...746/273727/158

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    On March 3, 2016, Juniper filed an appeal before the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/ci...ourts/ca4/16-2

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    On September 15, 2017, oral argument will be heard in Juniper's appeal before the Fourth Circuit.

    http://pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov/calend...p122017ric.pdf

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    VIRGINIA DEATH ROW INMATE GETS HEARING ON WITNESS STATEMENTS

    RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A federal appeals court has ordered a lower court to hold a hearing on a Virginia death row inmate's claim that prosecutors failed to turn over evidence favorable to him.

    Anthony Juniper was sentenced to death for the 2004 murders of his former girlfriend, her two children and her brother in Norfolk.

    The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday sent the case back to U.S. District Court, finding that a judge was wrong to dismiss Juniper's claim without holding a hearing.

    Juniper's lawyers allege that a witness gave an account to police that contradicted the prosecution's timeline of the killings and failed to identify Juniper from a photo array.

    A judge stayed Juniper's execution in 2011 and allowed him to pursue appeals in federal court.

    http://www.13newsnow.com/mobile/arti...ents/492410931
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    The panel was made up of Judges Gregory (Clinton), Wynn (Obama) and Diaz (Obama). Decision found here.

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    Virginia abolishes the death penalty, becoming first southern state to end capital punishment

    BY CASSIDY MCDONALD and PAULINA SMOLINSKI
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    Virginia became the 23rd state to abolish the death penalty Wednesday after Governor Ralph Northam signed legislation that would end the use of capital punishment in the commonwealth.

    "There is no place today for the death penalty in this commonwealth, in the South, or in this nation," Northam said in a speech Wednesday before he signed the bill. He called capital punishment "fundamentally flawed" and noted that it was disproportionately levied against Black people.

    Over Virginia's 400-year history, the commonwealth has executed more than 1,300 people — more than any other state, Northam said. Virginia will become the first state of the former Confederacy to abolish the death penalty, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

    "Virginia has a long and complicated history like other Southern states," Northam said. "The racism and discrimination of our past still echoes in our systems today and as we continue to step beyond the burden of that past, it is vital that we also change the systems in which inequality continues to fester."

    In the 20th century, more than 296 of the 377 defendants that Virginia executed for murder were Black, Northam said, and since 1976, nearly half of the 113 people executed in the state were Black.

    The two men who are currently on death row in Virginia will have their sentences reduced to life imprisonment, according to the legislation. Both men are Black.

    Virginia's General Assembly, which has been controlled by a Democratic majority for a second year, approved the legislation last month.

    "Virginia will become a more just, more righteous, more humane Commonwealth when we abolish the death penalty today," tweeted Virginia state delegate Marcus Simon, a Democrat who supported the bill.

    Human rights group Amnesty International said they welcomed the news, calling the death penalty "irreversible" and "ineffective."

    Kristina Roth, the group's senior advocate for criminal justice programs, said a Black defendant in Virginia is three times more likely to be sentenced to death if the victim is white rather than Black. "Virginia, once a stronghold of the confederacy, now becomes the first Southern state to end the ultimate denial of human rights that is the death penalty," she said in a statement to CBS News.

    Northam signed the legislation Wednesday from Greensville Correctional Center, a prison that houses Virginia's death chamber. Before signing the bill, Northam toured the facility.

    "It is a powerful thing to stand in the room where people were put to death," he said. "It is the moral thing to do to end the death penalty in the Commonwealth of Virginia."

    In the U.S., 42% of those on death row are White, while 41% are Black and 13% are Latinx, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/virgini...ralph-northam/
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    Daughter of victim of death row inmate reacts to Virginia abolishing death penalty

    By WTKR News

    NORFOLK, Va. - There aren't many photos of Keshia Stephens, and she will never have the chance to take more.

    Stephens, as well as her brother and her 4- and 2-year-old daughters, were murdered in Norfolk in 2004. Anthony Juniper, Stephens' ex-boyfriend, was arrested, and a jury later sentenced him to death.

    However, unlike some 1,300 people before him, Juniper's execution date won't come. On Wednesday, Gov. Ralph Northam signed legislation abolishing the death penalty in Virginia. It's the 23rd state to do so and the first state in the South.

    During a press conference, Northam said, "There is no place today for the death penalty in this Commonwealth - in the South or in this nation."

    However, the family of Keshia Stephens feels differently. Weshaya Stephens was just 6 years old when her mother, sisters and uncle were killed by Juniper.

    She said she was with her grandmother at the time of the murder, but remembers the frantic reactions.

    Since that day, she said her family has been torn apart and the remaining siblings have all been separated. When she heard that Northam signed the legislation, she said, "I was angry; I was livid; I was upset. This man is a monster. My sisters were 2 and 4 years old, you know. What I don't understand is why he doesn't deserve to die."

    The other man sitting on death row was also spared from execution. Thomas Porter was originally sentenced to death for killing Norfolk Police Officer Stanley Reaves in 2005.

    Their sentences will now be converted to life in prison without parole.

    "My mama doesn't get a chance at life without parole, so it's just not fair," Weshaya Stephens said. "Her kids didn't get a chance for life without parole; life was over for them before they even got a chance to understand what life was."

    News 3 also spoke with a juror from Juniper's capital murder trial. This individual didn't want to be identified, but said the jurors made the best decision possible with the evidence that was presented.

    They said they stand by their decision, but said abolishing the death penalty in Virginia is probably for the best.

    "I had no doubt that [Juniper] was guilty, but there are so many others that have been wrongfully convicted," they said.

    Northam touched on this point on Wednesday and said, "We can't sentence people to that ultimate punishment knowing that the system doesn't work the same for all people."

    He reported that since 1973, more than 170 people around the country have been released from death row after newfound evidence supported their innocence.

    Stephens, on the other hand, said this doesn't give her family justice or closure.

    "[Juniper] doesn't care about anything and doesn't have any regard for humans, so why should I care about him?" she said.

    https://www.wtkr.com/news/daughter-o...-death-penalty
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