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Maryland Governor Requests Lethal Injection Regulations

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In the Baltimore Sun, Jennifer McMenamin and Laura Smitherman report, "O'Malley OKs step toward executions."Gov. Martin O'Malley moved yesterday toward ending Maryland's moratorium on executions, saying he "sadly" ordered the drafting of procedures for executing inmates by lethal injection. The announcement by O'Malley, who has opposed the death penalty, came nearly 18 months after the state's highest court ruled that the Maryland's execution protocols were improperly developed without legislative oversight or public input. And last month, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Kentucky's use of lethal injection protocols virtually identical to those Maryland's. "I wish we would arrive at a point where we would repeal the death penalty, but I do not have the luxury in this job or the permission in this job only to enforce laws that I'm in favor of and that I agree with," O'Malley, a Democrat, told reporters in Annapolis...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 23, 2008 (boomark / email).