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Maryland House Approves Death Penalty Limits

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More on SB 279, including different versions of the bill, is from the Maryland General Assembly.  I'm not certain that the final version is up, yet, but it will be posted at the link, soon.  "Md. House OKs death penalty reform," is Julie Bykowicz's report in today's Baltimore Sun. The House of Delegates approved new restrictions on the death penalty in Maryland on Thursday, sending the much-debated plan to the state's anti-capital punishment governor, who has said he will sign it into law. Amid a national debate over executions, Maryland's evidentiary limitations will become the most stringent of any of the 35 states that have capital punishment on the books, legal experts say. Gov. Martin O'Malley, a Democrat, had sought to make Maryland the latest state to abolish the death penalty, as New Mexico did this year...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 27, 2009 (boomark / email).