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Maryland Lawmakers Discuss Road to Death Penalty Repeal

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That's the title of today's Baltimore Sun article written by Julie Bykowicz and Gadi Dechter.  It's subtitled, "O'Malley wants 'fair up or down vote' this year."After Gov. Martin O'Malley called for a "fair up or down vote" on the death penalty during his State of the State address yesterday, top lawmakers began discussing strategies for how that could happen this year. Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller said it was "strongly possible" that the entire Senate would debate the O'Malley-backed initiative and predicted a close vote in favor of repealing Maryland's death penalty. Miller vowed to block filibuster efforts. Miller, a staunch supporter of capital punishment, said he believes the death penalty "is not working in the state of Maryland, because of judges, because of lawyers, because of cost...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 30, 2009 (boomark / email).