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"House next to argue death penalty," by Douglas Tallman and Sean Sedam is from Southern Maryland Newspapers Online.After a tortuous week in the Senate, the death penalty debate now shifts to the House of Delegates, where members are more likely to support repeal. Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. has offered a take-it-or-leave-it ultimatum to the lower chamber: Pass the Senate bill, or get nothing. Some delegates may not be quite so conciliatory. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph F. Vallario Jr. said his panel would take up the Senate bill, but offered no guarantees that the measure wouldn't be amended. "We're an independent body. We'll take the bill up, and we'll pass what we like," said Vallario (D-Prince George's, Calvert)...continue to full post

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