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"House committee approves death penalty restrictions," is Julie Bykowicz' report in the Saturday Baltimore Sun.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. When the 47-member Senate rejected O'Malley's repeal attempt this month and instead approved limitations on the existing statute, Senate President Thomas V...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 23, 2009 (boomark / email).