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Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment Recommends Repeal

By Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing

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On November 12, the Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment voted 13-7 to recommend to the legislature to repeal the death penalty in that state. The 23-member commission whose membership includes a police chief, a former death row inmate exonerated by DNA, religious leaders, three murder victims family members, legislators, and a county prosecutor, found that "the capital punishment system as it exists in Maryland doesn't really work." Five people have been executed in Maryland since 1978.The commission also found:Racial and geographic disparities exist in how the death penalty in applied. Death penalty cases are more costly than non-death penalty cases and take a greater toll on survivors of murder victims.There is no persuasive evidence that risk of execution is a deterrent to crime, and the unavailability of DNA evidence in some cases opens the "the real possibility" of wrongfully convicting an innocent person...continue to full post

Full post as published by tcask:: on the road (to abolition) on November 17, 2008 (boomark / email).

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