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Maryland's Moratorium

By Steve Hall

The Baltimore Sun carries a lengthy examination of the state's death penalty, "Death penalty moratorium leaves survivors, convicts in limbo; Capital punishment opponents see momentum for repeal."  It's by Julie Bykowicz. Maryland is one of 35 states with a capital punishment law, has five men on death row and is prosecuting a half dozen new capital cases. But no one has been put to death in more than five years, and the slow writing and rewriting of execution protocols has imposed a de facto moratorium on capital punishment that appears unlikely to end anytime soon. Last week, state prison officials told lawmakers they need more time to work on the protocols ? a task that so far has spanned the entire administration of Gov...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 14, 2011 (boomark / email).