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Death Penalty Protocols

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That's the title of an editorial in today's Baltimore Sun, subtitled, "Our view: Repeal of the law must be pursued."Gov. Martin O'Malley has reluctantly set in motion the process to resume state executions. He didn't really have much of a choice after the U.S. Supreme Court last month upheld the constitutionality of lethal injection. That's when Mr. O'Malley lost his main reason for delaying a redrafting of the execution protocols that had been invalidated by the Maryland Court of Appeals more than a year ago. Last week, he ordered state public safety officials to begin the rewrite. Capital punishment has lost support among Marylanders, but it remains the law, unfortunately, and governors often are called upon to enforce laws that they morally oppose...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 27, 2008 (boomark / email).