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Maryland moves closer to substantially limiting its capital punishment scheme

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

In Maryland a major curtailment of that state’s death penalty moved closer to passage: New limits on the death penalty in Maryland took a major step Wednesday toward becoming law, even as some senators acknowledged refinements are needed to a proposal that appears headed to the desk of the state’s anti-capital punishment governor, who has said he will sign it. The House of Delegates rejected a Republican-led effort to loosen proposed restrictions, meaning that a Senate plan to limit the death penalty to murder cases that include DNA or biological evidence, a videotape of the crime or a voluntary, video-recorded confession of the killer is scheduled for a final vote Thursday. Death penalty experts say Maryland would have some of the strictest limits in the nation on when capital punishment could be used...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on March 25, 2009 (boomark / email).