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"Panel reconsiders death penalty repeal," is Jennifer McMenamin's article in the Baltimore Sun.A year after opponents of capital punishment were joined by Gov. Martin O'Malley in lobbying for a repeal of Maryland's death penalty law, the activists returned to Annapolis yesterday - albeit without the governor - to again urge a state Senate committee to make life in prison without parole the state's toughest sentence. With the same legislators who defeated the bill to repeal the death penalty by a single vote last year still on the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee, however, the bill's chances seem dim. Baltimore Democrat Lisa A. Gladden, the lead sponsor of the Senate bill, acknowledged that at the outset of the hearing. "I almost feel like this is Groundhog Day because we've been here before," she told her colleagues...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 07, 2008 (boomark / email).