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The latest news on Maryland's continuing debate over death penalty reform

By Douglas A. Berman

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The Baltimore Sun reports here on the latest development from Maryland on legislative reform of death penalty administration. Here are the particulars: A House of Delegates committee approved the Senate's plan yesterday to restrict capital punishment to cases with specific kinds of evidence, a major step toward added limitations on Maryland's death penalty that could receive final legislative approval as soon as next week. Gov. Martin O'Malley had called on the Senate to abolish the death penalty, and the House appeared poised to follow suit. But the governor urged delegates this week to abandon the repeal in favor of the Senate plan. In the view of some death penalty supporters, however, the limitations are tantamount to a repeal.... Under the Senate proposal, prosecutors could seek capital punishment only in murder cases in which the crime was caught on videotape, the defendant confesses on video tape, or DNA or biological evidence links the defendant to the crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 21, 2009 (boomark / email).