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Maryland Death Penalty: Responding to calls by prosecutors and GOP legislators, Governor Martin O'Malley has reluctantly ordered the Maryland Department of Public Safety to review the state's lethal injection protocol and submit the recommended procedure to a legislative panel for approval. Critics claim that O'Malley, a death penalty opponent, has been dragging his feet on resuming executions since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Kentucky's protocol, which is identical to Maryland's. A story by Baltimore Sun writers Jennifer McMenamin and Laura Smitherman reports House Minority Leader Anthony O'Donnell's estimate that the process would take nearly a year when, in fact, the state "could come up with protocols by the end of the week." DNA Hit in Cold Case: Pennsylvania Prosecutors will seek the Death Penalty for a habitual sex offender who raped and murdered a young woman 30 years ago...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on May 23, 2008 (boomark / email).