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By Steve Hall

John Wagner posts the current status of death penalty legislation and lethal injection regulations at the Washington Post's Maryland Politics blog, "O'Malley puts a spotlight on home foreclosures."The issue O'Malley chose to highlight with his personal testimony last year -- the death penalty -- has been little more than a blip on the Annapolis agenda so far this year.Though lawmakers did not repeal the death penalty last year , they instead passed a bill tightening the evidence standards in capital cases. Some want to tweak that legislation this year, but there is little appetite to refight the larger battle.Things have also been quiet on a related front: Regulations needed to resume capital punishment in Maryland remained stalled in a legislative review committee headed by two lawmakers who oppose the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 17, 2010 (boomark / email).