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Maryland - A Push for Lethal Injection Regulations

By Steve Hall

"More death penalty talk in Md.," is the AP report today via the Washington Post.  Here's an extended excerpt: Within a month, a state panel will take up proposed rules on how lethal injections are administered in Maryland, a lawmaker who co-chairs the committee said Monday. State Sen. Paul Pinsky, D-Prince George's, said in an interview he believes the General Assembly's Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive and Legislative Review could hold a hearing and vote on the state's execution protocols. "We are going to take it up in some way, shape, or form, I expect, over the next month," Pinsky said. Capital punishment has been on hold since the state's highest court ruled in late 2006 that the committee hadn't properly approved Maryland's lethal injection protocols...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 18, 2011 (boomark / email).