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Gadi Dechter reports, "Panel's death penalty backers still in the minority," in today's Baltimore Sun.Two more members of a state commission reviewing capital punishment indicated yesterday that they will recommend keeping the death penalty in Maryland, but a majority of panelists still support abolishing the practice. At a meeting last night in Annapolis, a representative of Attorney General Douglas M. Gansler joined the minority that backs keeping the death penalty, slimming the abolitionists' margin to 13-8 on the 23-member commission. Also, Ocean City Police Chief Bernadette DiPino, a panelist who did not attend yesterday's meeting, told The Baltimore Sun she was leaning toward voting to retain capital punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 21, 2008 (boomark / email).