Kevin Green’s lawyers were pleading with the governor for mercy.
It was spring 2008, and Mr. Green, a 31-year-old who had shot and killed a grocery owner, was on Virginia’s death row. His woes, his lawyers said, dated to childhood; he was born with his umbilical cord wrapped around his neck, repeated three years of elementary school and never learned to tie his shoes.
His was precisely the kind of execution a young Tim Kaine, a Harvard-educated lawyer w…
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