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Crime & Capital Punishment Issues in the Maryland Governor's Race

By Steve Hall

Saturday's Washington Post reported, "Ehrlich takes issue with O'Malley's delays on death penalty."  It's written by John Wagner. Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) has repeatedly fallen short in his attempts to persuade lawmakers to abolish capital punishment. But as he nears the end of his term, O'Malley is close to achieving through delay and inertia what he could not change in the law. Three-and-a-half years after the state's highest court halted use of the death penalty on a technicality, O'Malley has yet to implement regulations required for executions to resume. Although O'Malley says his administration is working diligently in that direction, advocates on both sides of the issue say they strongly doubt that any of Maryland's five condemned prisoners will be put to death before the governor stands for reelection this fall...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 10, 2010 (boomark / email).