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By Dominic Bonaiuto
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The candidates for governor revived their arguments over immigration, taxes and the death penalty in Sunday night’s final debate before the Nov. 8 election.
Democrat Tim Kaine was pressed about his religious objection to the death penalty in a question that referenced the recent killing of Virginia Commonwealth University student Taylor Behl from Vienna.
“Tm a Catholic. I’m against the death penally and abortion. That’s what my church teaches,” Kaine said. “But I put my hand on a Bible and swear to uphold the laws of the commonwealth.”
. Kaine, the lieutenant governor, has said he would not seek to abolish the death penalty or overuse the governor’s powers to grant clemency.
Republican Jerry Kilgore, the former attorney general, said he would support the death penalty in the Behl case if someone is convicted for her killing.
Kilgore was later asked how supporting the death penalty is consistent with the “culture of life” promoted by the Republican Party.
“I support protecting innocent life at the beginning and end of life, but what I don’t support is protecting the life of those who commit the most heinous crimes among us,” he said.
Absent from Sunday’s debate was Russ Potts, a Republican state senator from Winchester now running for governor as an Independent. He filed suit late last week to be included* but a judge denied his claim.
The Virginia Center for Politics, which sponsored the
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