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Maryland DP Commission

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

The dissent picked up two more votes on Maryland's death penalty study commission, reports Gadi Dechter in the Baltimore Sun. In an interview, [Attorney General Douglas] Gansler, a Democrat, said that he did not believe lawmakers would be greatly influenced by the recommendations of a commission and that he expects the General Assembly to retain the practice."This commission was stacked from the beginning to come out with findings against the death penalty," said Gansler, a former chief prosecutor in Montgomery County. He said he supports the death penalty if it is handled in a "fair, race-neutral, socioeconomic-neutral way."

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on November 21, 2008 (boomark / email).