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Marlyand Releases New Lethal Injection Rules

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The draft procedures are here."Maryland moves toward resuming executions," is Laura Smitherman's report in today's Baltimore Sun.Gov. Martin O'Malley's administration took a reluctant step Wednesday toward resuming executions in Maryland after the governor failed earlier this year to persuade the General Assembly to outlaw capital punishment. The state issued revised protocols for lethal injections, which O'Malley had postponed as he sought to build support for a repeal in the legislature. The governor, a Roman Catholic, had made it a personal crusade to end the death penalty. A de facto moratorium has been in place since December 2006, when the state's highest court ruled that the protocols had been improperly developed...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 25, 2009 (boomark / email).