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Death Penalty Restricted

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That's the title of an OpEd by Maryland State Senator Ron Dyson at Southern Maryland Online.  LINKMaryland is one of 36 states with a death penalty. This year, legislation to repeal the death penalty is being considered in Maryland and seven other states - Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico and Washington. In Maryland, 53% of the people support the death penalty. I have always opposed the repeal of the death penalty in Maryland. The Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment, established by the 2008 General Assembly, is the fourth time in the past 15 years that a study of the death penalty was ordered by the Legislature. Two of the studies found that racial disparity in the death penalty existed and continued to exist...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 13, 2009 (boomark / email).