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State Legislatures are beginning to crank up, and the death penalty is front and center in Maryland.  The Sunday Washington Post carried the OpEd, "A Moral Test for Maryland Legislators," by The Right Rev. John Bryson Chane and the Right Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton, respectively, the Episcopal bishops of Washington and Maryland. As the Maryland General Assembly prepares to convene on Wednesday, we hope that legislators will decide against the death penalty in Maryland. Doing so would represent an enormous moral failure for the state and for civil society. For decades, many religious groups have voiced strong public opposition to capital punishment, believing that every human being is given life by God and that only God has the right to deny life...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 12, 2009 (boomark / email).