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Maryland Commission Meets

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"First death penalty hearing held," is Jennifer McMenamin's report in the Baltimore Sun.A state commission appointed to study the death penalty began its work yesterday by hearing testimony on statistical evidence of racial, geographic and socioeconomic disparities in different states' imposition of death sentences. University professors, a former judge and statisticians from across the country appeared before the panel, which is assigned to offer recommendations to the General Assembly to ensure the administration of capital punishment in Maryland is "free from bias and error" and capable of achieving "fairness and accuracy." In the most emotional testimony of the more than four-hour hearing, the brother of the Unabomber and the brother of a Marine convicted of killing an elderly woman during a flashback from his service in Vietnam offered accounts of their starkly different experiences with the criminal justice system...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 29, 2008 (boomark / email).