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Maryland General Assembly Creates Death Penalty Study Commission

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The Baltimore Sun carries an AP article and later, a staff-written report.  Let's begin with the AP dispatch, here.The House of Delegates voted today to create a commission to study capital punishment in Maryland, after efforts to repeal the death penalty failed for a second straight year. The House voted 89-48 to form the commission, which would study racial, jurisdictional and economic disparities in how the death penalty has been administered. The Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment also would study the risk of innocent people being executed and compare the costs of executing someone with the expense of imprisoning someone for life without parole. The Senate was scheduled to vote on a similar bill tonight.And:Maryland currently has a de facto moratorium in place against capital punishment, because of a ruling in late 2006 by the state's highest court...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 25, 2008 (boomark / email).