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Religious Leaders Call for Maryland Abolition

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"Interfaith appeal to end death penalty in Md.," is the Wednesday Baltimore Sun report by Matthew Hay Brown.With the General Assembly session set to open today, an interfaith coalition of Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Muslim leaders is urging lawmakers to repeal Maryland's death penalty. "Life has been entrusted to us by God," Bishop Denis J. Madden of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore said yesterday. "When one deliberately takes away the life of another for any cause, one moves against the creator of life itself." Bolstered by a state task force recommendation last month that the death penalty be abolished, Madden and other leaders signed a letter urging Gov. Martin O'Malley and the General Assembly to repeal "the law allowing for the state execution of men and women...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 15, 2009 (boomark / email).