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The Hagerstown Herald-Mail has, "Md. House Republicans lobby O'Malley to keep death penalty."House Republicans on Thursday renewed their push to keep Maryland's death penalty and for Gov. Martin O'Malley to remove an obstacle so it may be carried out. Shortly before a death-penalty repeal bill was heard in a House committee, Republicans called on O'Malley, a Democrat, to fix a technical problem that prevents Maryland from actually executing anyone sentenced to die. The state has effectively had a death-penalty moratorium for about 15 months. In December 2006, the Maryland Court of Appeals said the state improperly adopted its death-penalty procedure and couldn't execute inmates until the problem was corrected. O'Malley, who testified in favor of a repeal bill last year, hasn't taken any action...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 14, 2008 (boomark / email).