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As the Time report details, states are actively evaluating their capital punishment laws.  It's also apparent from the local news coverage."Senator suggests deal on death penalty measure, is today's Baltimore Sun report by Laura Smitherman.A new wrinkle in the death penalty debate emerged in the General Assembly yesterday when a state senator said he would vote to move a repeal bill out of the committee where it has been bottled up for several years. But the lawmaker, Sen. Bryan W. Simonaire, also wants the committee to move a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. Both bills are stalled in the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee.Gov. Martin O'Malley, a Democrat, has made abolition of Maryland's death penalty a personal crusade, and opponents of capital punishment have eyed Simonaire as a potential swing vote to spring the repeal bill from the committee...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 03, 2009 (boomark / email).